Comment.  Yesterday, the world heard that the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) had conditionally approved Shell Oil Company's 2010 Chukchi Sea Plan of Exploration.  Amid the celebrating, however, one notes that the Federal Administration strategy to invoke death by a thousand cuts is alive and well.  For example, while MMS conditionally approves, the Environmental Protection Agency still dallies and evades a timely granting of an air quality permit--which can still stop Shell's multi-billion dollar investment in Alaska's OCS.  (To her credit, Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) responded that, "Shell Oil is in [...]