This is the June 2, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Hi there! It ...
After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean ...
The Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site, an area of contaminated sediment, faces renewed concerns over chemicals dumped into the ocean. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: I knew that ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate ...
Who among C&EN readers has not heard of DDT? Most readers may know it by one of its many names: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, “the miracle chemical,” “the ...
To the editor: I knew that thousands of barrels likely containing DDT had been casually dumped off the coast of California and Catalina Island decades ago, and it still shocks and appalls me. But to ...
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