2010-08-30 01:37:49
NEW YORK – Stocks took another late-day dive Tuesday after the government said it was starting criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 112. Its plunge came shortly before the close and minutes after Attorney General Eric Holder made the announcement. Stocks in energy companies and oil service providers tumbled on the news, and other stocks followed. Holder would not say which companies or individuals might be under investigation. But investors quickly dumped stocks across the energy industry. BP PLC, which operated the rig ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – The death toll from a violent weekend storm that lashed Central America neared 150 Tuesday, and more fatalities were feared as rescuers reached villages cut off by floods and mudslides. Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom told a news conference that 123 people were now confirmed killed and another 90 missing in his country as a result of Tropical Storm Agatha, which dumped heavy rains before dissipating in the country's highlands. "I want to make clear that those are provisional numbers because new information continues to...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – The first tropical storm of the season in the Americas has left at least 82 people dead in Guatemala and El Salvador, amid flash floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said. Tropical Storm Agatha forced more than 74,000 people to flee their homes as it whipped heavy rains across four countries, including Mexico and Honduras. "As of the moment, we have reports of 73 people killed throughout the country, the majority from landslides," Guatemala's emergency management agency (Conred) chief David de Leon to...
2010-08-26 01:35:31
HOUSTON – The Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to end a long-running dispute with Texas over how the state regulates emissions, including cancer-causing toxins such as benzene and butadiene, from dozens of refineries that produce a third of the nation"s gasoline and billions of dollars of petrochemicals. In a step it called unprecedented, the agency barred Texas from issuing an operating permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi — a power it has traditionally delegated to state regulators. The EPA said it would do the same in dozens of other cases in which it believes the state"s...
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WASHINGTON – Salmonella found in raw alfalfa sprouts appears to have sickened at least 22 people in 10 states, including a baby in Oregon, prompting a nationwide recall of the product. Caldwell Fresh Foods of Maywood, Calif., announced the recall Friday. According to the Oregon Department of Human Services, which also announced the recall Friday, Caldwell"s alfalfa product was sold in 18 states in the West, Midwest and South. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11 people were sickened in California, two were sickened in Nevada and two were sickened in Wisconsi...