Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental MONDAY, 22 MARCH 2010 16:08 The corporate owner of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Secaucus pleaded guilty Monday to unlawfully discharging wastewater contaminated with sewage into the Hackensack River. RD Secaucus LP, pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree charge of unlawfully discharging a pollutant in violation of the state Water Pollution Control […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental  Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2010 Operators of the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to a charge of negligent discharge of pollutants and pay more than $370,000 after a hotel employee dumped pool chemicals down a rooftop drain last year, causing several people to become […]

“Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Owners of L.A. hotel charged with dumping chlorine that sickened riders The Associated Press updated 1:10 p.m. ET, Mon., Feb. 2, 2009 LOS ANGELES – The corporate owner of a swanky hotel has been charged after workers were accused of illegally disposing pool chemicals that sickened subway riders and sparked fears […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif. Apr. 17–SANTA CRUZ — The owner of the Brookdale Inn and Spa will pay nearly $17,000 after one of his employees poured chemicals into a storm drain in 2008, killing about 50 endangered steelhead trout as they swam through Clear Creek in the lodge’s famous dining room. But […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By David Brown and Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, January 20, 2007 The Hilton Washington Dulles Airport hotel closed yesterday for the weekend so crews could scrub and sanitize every surface after about 120 employees and guests were sickened by the highly contagious norovirus, which officials say is particularly […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret News Published: Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:50 p.m. MDT Fifty-one people were taken to the hospital in Panguitch Saturday morning after a chemical leak at Ruby’s Inn near Bryce Canyon National Park began to make them sick. The leak happened at 11:30 a.m. at the popular […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff, and Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent The Boston Globe Elevated levels of carbon monoxide forced the evacuation today of the Liberty Hotel, sending hundreds of workers, guests and two monkeys and a pet crow out onto Charles Street. When the owner of the crow named “Shaft” […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental A five-star hotel in Dubai is testing for Legionnaires’ Disease after three guests contracted the illness. One of the guests of the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi, British cricket scorer and broadcaster Bill Frindall, died on Thursday after leaving Dubai. A spokeswoman for the hotel said all tests for the bacterium that causes […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental By Barbara De Lollis, USA TODAY In the last three months, a European tourist who’d stayed at the luxury EPIC Hotel in downtown Miami died from Legionnaires’ disease, while two other prior guests had fallen ill with the same serious form of pneumonia, according to the Miami Herald. Because all three […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The Associated Press Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 2:48 p.m. MIAMI – About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one guest died and at least two others became sick since October from Legionnaire’s disease. Health officials […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental Oct. 18, 2008 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Bacterium found at Polo Towers By ANNETTE WELLS REVIEW-JOURNAL The Southern Nevada Health District issued a warning to past and present guests of Polo Towers on Friday that a bacterium common in warm water that causes Legionnaires’ disease was discovered in the resort’s […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental The hospitalization cost of three U.S. waterborne diseases comes to more than $500 million annually, federal health officials say. Study authors Michael Beach of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says healthcare costs for three common waterborne diseases — Legionnaires’ disease, cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis — amount to $539 million annually. Using […]