Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General LegislationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Kepone Contamination
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General LegislationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Poison Powder
Author: Gregory S. WilsonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820364037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison under contract for a much larger Hopewell company, Allied Chemical. Life Science workers had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. Ingestion of the chemical made their bodies seize and shake. News of ill workers eventually led to the discovery of widespread environmental contamination of the nearby James River and the landscape of the small, working-class city. Not only had Life Science dumped the chemical, but so had Allied when the company manufactured it in the 1960s and early 1970s. The resulting toxic impact was not only on the city of Hopewell but also on the faraway fields where Kepone was used as an insecticide. Aspects of this environmental tragedy are all too common: corporate avarice, ignorance, and regulatory failure combined with race and geography to determine toxicity and shape the response. But the Kepone story also contains some surprising medical, legal, and political moments amid the disaster. With Poison Powder, Gregory S. Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison on the people and natural world long after 1975. Although the manufacture and use of Kepone is now banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, organochlorines have long half-lives, and these toxic compounds and their residues still remain in the environment.
Human population exposures to mirex and kepone
Author: Benjamin E. SutaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Kepone
Author: George R. WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A collection of newspaper articles discussing the effect of technology on the lower James River, particularly the long range effect of the Kepone disaster in Hopewell, VA in the mid 1970s.
EPA Releases Kepone Contamination Data
Author: Health Effects Research Laboratory (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Kepone in the James River Estuary
Author: Michael A. UngerPublisher:
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Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
In late 1975, a manufacturing facility in Hopewell, VA had not only exposed workers to the chlorinated pesticide, Kepone, but had also severely contaminated the James River estuary. To assess the potential risk to the public, Virginia initiated a finfish-monitoring program in late 1975. Over the next 40 years over 13,000 samples were collected from the James River and Chesapeake Bay and analyzed for Kepone. Kepone production was eventually banned worldwide. The average Kepone concentrations found in most species began falling when the production of Kepone ended, but the averages remained over the action limit of 0.3 mgkg-1 until the early 1980s. By 1988, few fish contained average Kepone concentrations greater than the action limit. Kepone was still detected (>0.01 mgkg-1 wet weight) in the majority of white perch and striped bass samples taken from the James River in 2009 and a fish consumption advisory is still in effect over forty years after the source of contamination was removed. Due to state budget cuts, monitoring of Kepone has not been conducted since 2009. As part of its 40th Anniversary, the Virginia Environmental Endowment -- which was established as part of the Kepone pollution court settlement in 1977 -- requested that VIMS conduct an updated study of the current levels of Kepone in the James River.
Contaminated Marine Sediments
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309040957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The pervasive, widespread problem of contaminated marine sediments is an environmental issue of national importance, arising from decades of intentionally and unintentionally using coastal waters for waste disposal. This book examines the extent and significance of the problem, reviews clean-up and remediation technologies, assesses alternative management strategies, identifies research and development needs, and presents the committee's major findings and recommendations. Five case studies examine different ways in which a variety of sediment contamination problems are being handled.
The Feasibility of Mitigating Kepone Contamination in the James River Basin : Appendix A to the EPA Kepone Mitigation Project Report
Author: Pacific Northwest LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chlordecone
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Management of Bottom Sediments Containing Toxic Substances
Author: Spencer A. PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mercury
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Incidence and Severity of Sediment Contamination in Surface Waters of the United States
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description