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In 1975 employees at Lifestyles Science Merchandise, a small makeshift pesticide manufacturing facility in Hopewell, Virginia, was in poor health after publicity to Kepone, the logo title for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison underneath contract for a far better Hopewell corporate, Allied Chemical. Lifestyles Science employees have been respiring within the mud for greater than a yr. Ingestion of the chemical made their our bodies grab and shake. Information of in poor health employees in the end resulted in the
discovery of popular environmental contamination of the close by James River and the panorama of the small, working-class town. No longer most effective had Lifestyles Science dumped the chemical, however so had Allied when the corporate manufactured it within the Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies. The ensuing poisonous have an effect on was once now not most effective at the town of Hopewell but additionally at the far flung fields the place Kepone was once used as an insecticide.
Sides of this environmental tragedy are all too commonplace: company avarice, lack of understanding, and regulatory failure mixed with race and geography to decide toxicity and form the reaction. However the Kepone tale additionally incorporates some sudden clinical, criminal, and political moments amid the crisis. With Poison Powder, Gregory S. Wilson explores the prerequisites that put the Kepone manufacturing facility and the employees there within the first position and the results of the poison at the folks and flora and fauna lengthy after 1975. Despite the fact that the manufacture and use of Kepone is now banned through the Environmental Coverage Company, organochlorines have lengthy half-lives, and those poisonous compounds and their residues nonetheless stay within the surroundings.
الناشر : College of Georgia Press (1 أبريل 2023)
اللغة : الإنجليزية
غلاف ورقي : 252 صفحات
الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب ISBN-10 : 0820363480
الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب ISBN-13 : 978-0820363486
الأبعاد : 15.24 x 1.6 x 22.86 cm
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