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The EPA Issued a Press Release Banning the Use of DDT: A Safe and Effective Pesticide that had "Brought Malaria to Near Extinction"

The EPA Issued a Press Release Banning the Use of DDT: A Safe and Effective Pesticide that had “Brought Malaria to Near Extinction”

The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today, ending nearly three decades of application during which time the once-popular chemical was used to control insect pests on crop and forest lands, around homes and gardens, and for industrial and commercial purposes. An end to the continued domestic usage of the pesticide was decreed on June 14, ...