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Hurricanes are among the most destructive natural disasters, affecting millions of people worldwide and thousands of people along the Gulf Coast of the United States annually
Source: The Louisiana State Center
California Real Estate Developer Sentenced for Illegal Asbestos Removal in Idaho
August 23, 2004Aubrey Lewis Ritz of Sacramento, Calif., was sentenced to serve five years of probation, the first year of which will be spent in home confinement and pay a $100,000 fine for violating the Clean Air Act by failing to conduct a thorough asbestos inspection at the Stardust Hotel in Idaho Falls prior to undertaking a renovation project.
Failure to follow federal asbestos workplace practices can expose workers and others who enter an asbestos workplace to the inhalation of asbestos fibers which are a known cause of lung cancer, a lung disease known as asbestosis and mesothelioma, a cancer of the chest and abdominal cavities.
Fifty thousand dollars of the fine will be given to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for a project in Southeast Idaho. Sentencing was handed down on Aug. 1 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho in Pocatello. The case was investigated by the Boise office of EPAs Criminal Investigation Division with contract assistance from EPA Region 10. It was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Idaho.
On September 28, 1998, the Mississippi Gulf Coast took a direct hit by Hurricane Georges that left approximately 230,000 people without electricity and about 15,000 residents in public shelters. In Biloxi, Mississippi, flooding and hurricane-force winds (over 95 miles per hour) damaged several homes and businesses, necessitating curfew and a state of emergency.
Source: Louisiana State Center
