The United States Department of Justice has announced that Tyson Fresh Meats has agreed to a civil penalty that will call for the company to pay $2,026,500 in settlement. Tyson Fresh Meats, a subsidiary of Tyson Food, Inc., allegedly violated a pollution discharge permit.
The violation reportedly took place in Dakota City, Nebraska. The terms of the permit were agreed in 2002 in a document issued by the federal government.
John C. Cruden of the U.s. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division made sure it was known that such anti-pollution permits should be strictly adhered to.
Said Cruden: “This penalty …read more

In one of the biggest business moves of 2009, Oracle agreed to takeover Sun Microsystems. The deal is estimated to be worth almost $7.5 billion. Sun Microsystems, a company in the computer server industry, had been linked to IBM — but those negotiations broke off and Oracle jumped in.
However, the official Oracle takeover of Sun will have to wait a little bit longer. The United States Department of Justice is requesting further information about the transaction. One of the areas that is under the microscope is what Oracle will do with Java, an extremely popular programming language.
Despite the requests for …read more