-St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact.com, Truth-O-Meter, June 1, 2010
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Holly Doremus, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley who has studied the MMS permitting process, called it “a bit disingenuous” for Obama to focus solely on the 30-day limit….”I think rather that MMS has thought, and acted, as if it didn’t need to do detailed environmental review at the exploration plan stage” because it does them at the two earlier stages. “If that review were more thorough, and considered true worst-case scenarios, it might well be the case that 30 days would be enough to look at the environmental impacts of exploration in a particular location,” she said.
-Dateline NBC, June 4, 2010 by Aram Roston
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37518051/ns/dateline_nbc/
“They pretended they had already taken a careful look,” says Holly Doremus, an environmental law professor at University of California at Berkeley. “But it seems badly wrong. The bottom line was that the environmental analysis was completely unrealistic.”
-Rolling Stone, June 8, 2010 by Tim Dickinson
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0
“There was a complete failure to even contemplate the possibility of a disaster like the one in the Gulf,” says Holly Doremus, an environmental-law expert at the University of California. “In their thinking, a big spill would be something like 5,000 barrels, and the oil wouldn’t even reach the shoreline.”