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Federal inspectors charged with ensuring the safety of offshore oil drilling are overwhelmed, insufficiently trained, work without official procedures for some of their most crucial decisions and sometimes have insufficient support from their supervisors for resisting industry influence, according to a report released Tuesday by the Interior Department’s inspector general…
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Inspectors Adrift in Rig-Safety Push, Outgunned by Industry and Outmatched by Job, WSJ
