Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In internal memos made public recently, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that acid waste from ...

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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 ...

The insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, DDT, was hailed as a miracle bug blaster in the 1940s, then demonized as a wildlife destroyer in the 1960s. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

Deep sea fish are contaminated with the pesticide DDT and other related chemicals off the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast and beyond, according to a study released this week. The fish, as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...