In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill , the Minerals Management Service ( MMS ) , which had regulatory responsibility for offshore oil drilling , was widely cited as an example of regulatory capture . The MMS then became the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management , Regulation and Enforcement ( BOEMRE ) and on October 1 , 2010 , the collection of mineral leases was split off from the agency and placed under the Department of the Interior as the Office of Natural Resources Revenue ( ONRR ) . On October 1 , 2011 , BOEMRE was then split into two bureaus , the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ( BSEE ) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ( BOEM )
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Regulatory capture