that has allowed some oil companies to bypass some critical environmental reviews. today we re announcing a new examination of the environmental procedures for oil and gas exploration and development. he says a new examination and closing loopholes. no matter your view, whether that there should be offshore drilling, people say they told these guys during the transition, and in the early weeks, this is an agency that routinely ignores the scientists, routinely has what the president called a cozy relationship with the industry. we re 16 months into the administration, you ve both been involved in new strigss, should they have a better sense of what s go on in their own government? yeah. i m as good a democrat as the next person. there was a 2007 i.g. report that was one of those devastating i.g. reports ever, and i this this agency we need to find out what happened to it, how it became an extension of these oil companies, but that s an interesting thing. congress needs to get