DDT Pollution Dumped off Los Angeles Coast Has Not Broken Down Decades Later, Scientists Find

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By Olivia RosaneMar 28, 2023, 4:45 pm162 pts
In 2020, University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, scientist David Valentine used a deep-sea robot to confirm that the largest dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) maker in the U.S. had dumped tens of thousands of barrels of the toxic pesticide off the Los Angeles coast. “Holy crap. This is real,”…

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