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 ...

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 ...

It’s worse that we have DDT compounds spread across a wide area ... who might have been dumping waste in the area. One of ...

The waters that support Southern California face a wide range of environmental threats. New studies suggest the next 25 years ...

According to the LA Times, the researchers searched through hundreds of pages of old records, finding evidence that the same company responsible for dumping DDT in the area, California Salvage ...

In 1967, the federal government declared the California condor an endangered species, but the giant birds’ numbers continued to dwindle because of pesticides like DDT, microtrash, habitat loss ...

Researchers and advocates are worried about low survival rates for osprey chicks in the bay this year. Can the menhaden ...

California will also ban these forms by 2008 ... every industrial chemical was created for a purpose. Even DDT, the archvillain of Rachel Carson's 1962 classic book Silent Spring, which launched ...

The 1960 bill to permit Spanish-speaking people to take the California driver's test in Spanish 1963 legislation to extend ...