elizabeth birnbaum

Elizabeth Birnbaum, head of the supervisory authority of sub-sea oil operations resigned under pressure, while the president Barack Obama went straight to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The departure of the Director of the Mining Management Service, Elizabeth Birnbaum, Ken Salazar announced the Minister of the Interior at the hearing before Congress that the waiver of officers does not appear as planned.

Birnbaum renounced its own terms, and our own, "Salazar said lawmakers.The Ministry of the Interior United States dealing with natural resources and the environment, and not by the Interior Ministry, which is used in other countries.Birnbaum, Director of the department since July 2009, was heavily criticized by lawmakers of both parties because of poor surveillance activities and the friendly relations with the private sector.Salazar's recent major restructuring of the distribution of the three services.This is a very active day in Washington and the Gulf of Mexico, where the engineers were expected signs of success after the last attempt to include the disastrous oil spill began five weeks ago.