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There are numerous health hazards that can affect people in their natural environment.
DDT
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March 1, 2004 -- John Pollock, "Dying to be Politically Correct," Acumen: A Journal of the Life Sciences, September/October 2003 (acumenjournal.com)...
July 1, 2006 -- DESPITE DECADES-long attempts to ban or limit DDT use, the legacy of DDT is still with us and continues to threaten bird populations. University of...
April 24, 2007 -- KAMPALA (AFP) — Uganda's health ministry said Tuesday it would start using DDT, an insecticide banned in many countries because of...
October 1, 2007 -- Author Rachel Carson made the initial claim in her 1962 best-seller Silent Spring. Subsequent studies, including a meta-analysis published in EHP...
August 1, 2008 -- Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released a 20-year study showing that environmental laws that...
September 28, 2005 -- WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ninety-three percent ofUganda's population is at risk from malaria, with millions of casesand thousands of...
March 1, 2007 -- DDT has been widely used to control mosquitoborne malaria since the late 1940s. The compound and metabolites such as p,p'-DDE linger in the...
February 1, 2007 -- Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South. By Pete Daniel. The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History. (Baton...
July 8, 2004 -- Ever since Rachel Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the...
December 1, 2004 -- DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), a pesticide once used widely in agriculture and now limited to public health use, remains a controversial...