DDT
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The Environmental Protection Agency website notes that “multiple government agencies” approved the deep-ocean disposal of some refinery and chemical waste and military and radioactive junk, but it doesn’t specify DDT.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“There are pictures and videos of kids playing in plumes of DDT that the trucks would be releasing as they drove down the neighborhood roads,” says Ng.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
Of course, today we know that high-dose exposures to DDT can cause all kinds of illness in humans, including vomiting and seizures.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
For years, Times environmental reporter and Pulitzer finalist Rosanna Xia has been covering the legacy of forever chemical DDT, a pesticide once applied to humans as innocuously as hairspray and yardhose water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
And in an army camp in southern Taiwan samples of resistant bedbugs were found actually carrying a deposit of DDT powder on their bodies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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