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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – The release of 3 million gallons (11 million liters) of toxic wastewater from a defunct southwestern Colorado gold mine that was triggered by the Environmental Protection Agency was preventable, a government review of the spill concluded on Thursday. A 132-page report conducted by engineers with the U.S Bureau of Reclamation said the Aug. 5 blowout from the Gold King Mine above Silverton, Colorado, was
A former U.N. General Assembly president, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused by U.S. authorities of engaging in a wide-ranging bribery scheme pleaded not guilty on Thursday. John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda and onetime General Assembly president accused of taking more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to tax fraud charges. Ng
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid.
By Pawel Sobczak and Wiktor Szary WARSAW (Reuters) – Two new polls in Poland on Thursday showed diverging trends in the popularity of the frontrunning, nationalist-minded opposition before the Oct. 25 parliamentary election, heightening uncertainty about the shape of the next government and Warsaw’s ties with EU neighbors. Both surveys pointed to the eurosceptic, conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) winning the ballot with more than 30 percent of votes,
[PR Newswire] – TORONTO, Oct. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Golden Star will be releasing its third quarter 2015 financial results before market open on October 29, 2015. The Company will conduct a conference call and webcast …
[CNW Group] – Golden Star Third Quarter 2015 Results Conference Call
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government without fear of lawsuits advanced in the U.S. Senate with strong support from members of both parties on Thursday. Dozens of industry and business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, back the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), saying it would help
After a surprisingly strong quarter shorn of PayPal, further growth for eBay Inc will rest on its ability to make its website more visible to those searching for items to buy. EBay’s shares rose as much as 13.5 percent on Thursday, a day after the company reported a better-than-expected profit for its first quarter since it spun off PayPal Holdings Inc , the payments processing business that had been its
Exchanging traditional currency for the digital currency bitcoin online should be exempt from consumption taxes just like other transactions of banknotes and coins, the European Court of Justice said on Thursday. Europe’s highest court ruled in response to a request by Swedish tax authorities, who had argued bitcoin transactions should not be covered by a European Union directive exempting currency transactions from value added tax (VAT). “Those transactions are exempt
