DDT banned in the US
1972 CE • USA
"William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, banned today almost all uses of DDT, the long‐lived toxic pesticide that lodges in the food chain of men, animals, birds and fish."
E.W. Kenworthy, "DDT BANNED IN U.S. ALMOST TOTALLY, EFFECTIVE DEC. 31," The New York Times, June 15, 1972.
Image: R6, State & Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection via Flickr, Public domain
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