One mysterious chemical that is likely connected to the DDT dumping in California was 56 times more abundant in coastal condors and 148 times more abundant in California dolphins. "This DDT story ...

The discovery was made by researchers with the University of California San Diego’s Scripps ... As AP reports, the United States stopped using DDT in 1972 as well. DDT, which stands for ...

Before then, the Montrose Chemical Company legally manufactured DDT and used the Torrance, California, sewer system to dump its tainted waste water, a practice also legal at the time. For more ...

Over a dozen California condors have died from bird flu. The U.S. granted emergency approval for the use of a vaccine to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment have compiled frequently asked questions about the ...

TORRANCE, Calif.— Following the recent discovery that up to 500,000 barrels of the banned pesticide DDT were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off Southern California, the Center for Biological Diversity ...

California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens the already critically ...

I cover oil, gas, power, LNG markets, linking to human development. Lest we forget: California has increasingly become a natural gas state since the focus dramatically shifted to renewables in 2003.

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In 1972, on the basis of toxicity to fish and migrating birds (but not to humans), the EPA banned virtually all uses of DDT, a pesticide once widely deployed to kill disease-carrying insects.

California condors will receive a vaccine for a deadly strain of avian influenza that threatens the already critically ...