The Trump administration said Friday it is rejoining two agencies that were split up in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf oil spill. The new Marine Minerals Administration will bring together the functions of the current Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the change will enable a “streamlined approach” that will maintain rigorous safety standards. The new name is reminiscent of the old Minerals Management Service, the previous federal agency responsible for overseeing offshore drilling. In 2010, a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and discharging nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
