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Environmental Protests

Spraying DDT

Spraying DDT

In 1958, the United States' National Malaria Eradication Program used DDT to kill mosquitoes. Following the publication of Silent Spring and the public outcry it created, DDT was banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in June of 1972

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