For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles: How, exactly, ...

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Some commercial DDT preparations available to U.S. householders and gardeners have proved 1) disappointingly feeble, 2) harmful to plants and animals. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles was a dumping ground for the nation’s largest manufacturer of the pesticide DDT – a chemical now known to harm humans and wildlife. Due ...