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Allied Chemical, The Kepone Incident, And The Settlements: Twenty Years Later, Robert R. Merhige Jr., Manning Gasch Jr., William B. Cummings, Robert H. Sand, Robert B. Smith Iii, W. Wade Berryhill
Allied Chemical, The Kepone Incident, And The Settlements: Twenty Years Later, Robert R. Merhige Jr., Manning Gasch Jr., William B. Cummings, Robert H. Sand, Robert B. Smith Iii, W. Wade Berryhill
University of Richmond Law Review
Twenty years ago this July the happenings at a small chemical plant in Hopewell, Virginia ushered in what has since become an incident of national impact and importance. Through the prosecution of criminal cases, the filing of civil personal injury suits and the closing of the James River to fishing, the release of the chemical from the Kepone manufacturing process gained national attention.
Changes In The Clean Water Act Since Kepone: Would They Have Made A Difference?, Wiliam Goldfarb
Changes In The Clean Water Act Since Kepone: Would They Have Made A Difference?, Wiliam Goldfarb
University of Richmond Law Review
In the anti-regulatory climate that currently pervades the American political scene, it is important to emphasize the palpable and significant accomplishments of environmental regulation. One measure of the success of environmental law during the past twenty-five years is that long-term, relatively localized environmental contamination-such as the pollution of the lower James River by Kepone between 1966 and 1975-probably can no longer occur in the United States. Major environmental statutes, enacted during the decade between 1976 and 1986, have precluded continuing environmental abuses of this scope and magnitude. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, establishes a compre- …
Facing A Time Of Counter-Revolution-- The Kepone Incident And A Review Of First Principles, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Facing A Time Of Counter-Revolution-- The Kepone Incident And A Review Of First Principles, Zygmunt J.B. Plater
University of Richmond Law Review
The Kepone contamination episode of 1966-75 was a milestone that focused an entire nation's attention on environmental hazards and our need to do better in recognizing and avoiding them. We have learned a great deal from that unfortunate story. The evolution of American environmental law since the Kepone debacle has repeatedly used the incident as a touchstone in identifying environmental pollution's causes, effects, and potential solutions.