Kepone

...Container Corporation, and Hercules Chemical. It has dealt with many environmental issues over the years, most notably the infamous kepone debacle of the 1970s. In 1977, Hopewell again made the national news when a tanker hit the...

In this article: Hopewell, Virginia, DuPont Company, Prince George County, Charles City Point, and Richmond

...followed by esterification with SOCl2 Additionally hexachlorocyclopentadiene is the precursor to the pesticides mirex and kepone, although these are not classified as cyclodienes. Almost all derivatives have been banned or are...

In this article: Cyclopentadiene, Derivative, Pesticide, Aldrin, Mirex, Lindane, Endrin, Chlordane, and Heptachlor

...exposure. Additionally, Finklea called on Congress to adopt toxic substances legislation related to carcinogenic pesticides, and Kepone in particular. Finklea suggested that NIOSH did not have the resources to fully execute its mandate. For...

In this article: Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, EPA, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

...and silt had filled in the areas where the large ferries, if restored, would need to dock. Due to a dredging restriction in place because of Kepone contamination, it was not feasible to restore the automobile-carrying ferry service which the...

In this article: National Transportation Safety Board, James River Bridge, Richmond, Appomattox River, Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge, Virginia, World War II, Virginia Overland Transportation, and Sun Shipbuilding

...some unpleasant ones involving hellish flatulence). BTW: Hopewell, VA was thrust onto the national stage a few years later with the "Kepone disaster" of 1975, when workers at a plant that produced the pesticide Kepone got sick from...

In this article: Chester, Flatulence, The Simpsons, and James River

...a plant on College Avenue that has shut down production, opened in the late 1950s. The company manufactured the pesticides mirex and kepone from 1959 to 1974. The chemicals leached from a waste pile on the site and spread to Spring...

In this article: EPA, Spring Creek, Mirex, Waste, and Pesticide

...so thin they broke in the nest. But something else was clearly going on in the James. Watts and other experts believe that something was Kepone, a pesticide that a Hopewell company dumped in the river in the 1960s and' 70s in an...

In this article: Bald Eagle, James River, Charles City County, Virginia, and US

...to be done? Answer: Twenty or 30 years ago, people didn't want to have anything to do with the river. The river was closed [because of] Kepone. There was raw sewage going into the river. Richmond really turned its back on the river. The...

In this article: James River, Virginia, Cattle, Silver, and Richmond

...and May 15 in Virginia's portions of the bay. It seems like a decade doesn't go by without a crisis on the bay. In the 1970s it was Kepone, a poison dumped into the James River that afflicted fish; in the '80s it was acid rain, thought to be...

In this article: Maryland, Virginia, White perch, Striped bass, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and Leprosy

...imposing a $13 million fine against Allied Chemical for its pollution of the James River and Chesapeake Bay with the insecticide Kepone. But he also reduced the fine by $5 million after Allied set up an $8 million cleanup fund. He...

In this article: Robert R. Merhige Jr., Richmond, Virginia, University of Virginia, G. Gordon Liddy, Docket, Ku Klux Klan, Insecticide, and Dog