Editing Project on Government Oversight (section)

=== Unpaid oil royalties investigation ===
POGO released a series of reports from 1995 to 1997 that said the U.S. federal government was owed billions of dollars in unpaid oil royalties from companies that drilled oil from public lands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/90s/nr-oil-1995.html|title=Department of Interior Looks the Other Way: The Government's Slick Deal for the Oil Industry|date=1995|website=Project on Government Oversight|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/90s/nr-oil-1996.html|title=Wait! There Is More Money to Collect...Unpaid Oil Royalties Across the Nation|date=1996|website=Project on Government Oversight|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/90s/nr-oil-19960301.html|title=With A Wink And A Nod: How the Oil Industry and the Department of Interior Are Cheating the American Public and California School Children|date=1996|website=Project on Government Oversight|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/90s/nr-oil-1997.html|title=Drilling For The Truth: More Information Surfaces On Unpaid Oil Royalties|date=1997|website=Project on Government Oversight|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref> The reports claimed that the [[United States Department of the Interior|Department of the Interior]]'s [[Minerals Management Service|Mineral Management Service]] had a "sweetheart" relationship with oil companies that prevented the agency from going after the industry for moneys due.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1995/04/14/report-oil-firms-underpaid-royalties/4b6263b3-6b99-4f67-a94a-e3270ea22f63/|title=Report: Oil Firms Underpaid Royalties|last=Southerl|first=Daniel|date=1995-04-14|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-09-09|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://revellonretirement.blogs.money.cnn.com/1996/08/06/companies/govt_oil/|title=Watchdog group drills oil industry|date=1996-08-06|website=CNN Money|access-date=2017-09-09}}{{dead link |date=January 2025}}</ref>