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• 03 Jun 11
  

  Benjamin C

  EPA press release on the ban of DDT in the United States.

  science food

• 09 Feb 11
  

  Tara Treadway

  DDT Ban takes effect
  EPA Press release
  This article gives some great historynabout my suject, it talks about why we needed to use strong chimicals and how important it was that we used them. It talks about why pesticides were developed to combat malaria, typhus, and other insect disease. This is a grest article by the EPA
  

  pesticides banned

• 24 Mar 09
  

  Susan Haninger

  Falcons

• 01 Nov 07
  

  Anne Van Meter

  DDt ddtdrakes

• 23 Jul 07
  

  drobb85
  • An end to the continued domestic usage of the pesticide was decreed on June 14, 1972, when William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, issued an order finally cancelling nearly all remaining Federal registrations of DDT products. Public health, quarantine, and a few minor crop uses were excepted, as well as export of the material.

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