Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental August 17th, 2010 12:22 pm By Dominique Doms, International Trade Examiner The tourism industry in the Gulf of Mexico is normally at its peak around this time of the year, but tourists are few and far between this time around. A stroll around the beaches of the Florida panhandle and the […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 28 (Reuters) – At least three people were killed when a Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE:UNP – News) freight train hauling chlorine gas and anhydrous ammonia struck another train and derailed in a rural area on Monday, spreading a hazardous gas cloud. Two people were found dead in […]

Acknowledgement to Ironshore Environmental baltimoresun.com Firefighters stymied as CSX freight burns in Howard St. Tunnel; Civil defense sirens wail; I-395, Inner Harbor closed; water main break cuts power By David Michael Ettlin and Del Quentin Wilber Sun Staff July 19, 2001 Civil defense sirens wailed and major highways into Baltimore were closed after a freight train […]

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 […]