Harvard slimed, Obama appointee 'separated' from overseeing oil rig safety

5/27, Appointed by Obama in July 2009, sympathetic USA Today headline says Elizabeth Birnbaum "quit", acknowledges within report some sources say she was fired. "MMS chief Elizabeth Birnbaum quits post"

• "Birnbaum received her Juris Doctor from Harvard University in 1984...She was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 8." She has had a long career of government bureaucratic jobs related to environment.