The federal government banned the use of DDT in the early 1970's, but more than 50 years later, researchers are still finding ...

“The ultimate judgment [on DDT] remains political,” he wrote in 1979. Decisions by the government involving the use of toxic substances are political with a small “p.” In the case of ...

But the publication of Silent Spring sparked a government investigation into the widespread use of pesticides. Ultimately, this led to a ban of DDT in the United States; many other countries ...

TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...