by Molly Born | Jul 14, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — An Exxon Mobil executive on Friday told a House committee that the firm had met all regulatory standards even as the company takes full responsibility for an oil spill that dumped an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude into Montana’s...
by Kristin Kim & Abby Sun | Jul 14, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – For more than a decade, unsuspecting Americans have been paying charges on their phone bills for unauthorized services, according to a Senate investigation released Wednesday, and lawmakers said it’s time for the government to set some...
by Moran Zhang | Jul 13, 2011 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) — U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made it clear Wednesday that further stimulus for the U.S. economy is “an option on the table.” Bernanke told a U.S. House of Representatives committee that recent economic...
by Molly Born | Jul 13, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – A Coast Guard patrol boat that collided with a passenger vessel in San Diego Harbor in 2002, killing an 8-year-old boy, was going dangerously fast and the oversight that could have prevented the accident was inadequate, the National Transportation Safety...
by Hannah G. Vickers | Jul 12, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — Veterans will see more energy job openings in the coming years thanks to the new Troops to Energy Jobs initiative. The public-private partnership, officially launched on Monday, is an effort to develop an accelerated process for bringing returning...
by Hannah G. Vickers | Jul 8, 2011 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Like most mothers with sons in Iraq, Kathy Kerins worries a lot. Recently her son, Army Spec. Kyle Dite, told her he’d been moved to Kuwait, “He said, ‘Mom, don’t worry anymore, I’m relatively safe,’” Kerins recalled. “But you know overseas, sometimes...
