Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy by Gregory S. Wilson

Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy

Gregory S. Wilson

252 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction health history nature politics science
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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 ...

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