When President Obama appointed Michael Bromwich last year to oversee the creation of three new agencies to replace the disgraced Minerals Management Service following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, it was with a mandate “to build an organization that acts as the oil industry’s watchdog, not its partner.”
So far, Bromwich, a former partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson who served as inspector general of the Justice Department during the Clinton administration, has shown he’s got the bark — and the bite — to deliver. He’s moved aggressively to set up the agencies, splitting off the revenue-collecting arm in October 2010. The other two components — one in charge of safety and enforcement, the other tasked with development of offshore resources — became separate entities on Oct. 1.
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