Author: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Contains citations and abstracts of materials published by VIMS scientific staff and students in 1979.
1979 Contributions of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Author: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Contains citations and abstracts of materials published by VIMS scientific staff and students in 1979.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Contains citations and abstracts of materials published by VIMS scientific staff and students in 1979.
Contribution - Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Author: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Contributions of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1978
Author: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Print volume contains citations and abstracts of materials published by VIMS scientific staff and students in 1978. Microfiche set contains the complete texts of the works listed in the print volume.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Print volume contains citations and abstracts of materials published by VIMS scientific staff and students in 1978. Microfiche set contains the complete texts of the works listed in the print volume.
Contribution - Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Author: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Concurrent Sessions
Author:
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Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Progressive Fish-culturist
Author:
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Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium II
Author:
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Fishery Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Miscellaneous Report - Coastal Engineering Research Center
Author: Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Poison Powder
Author: Gregory S. Wilson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.