Ddt

DDT is a carcinogen which was commonly used in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

DDT is a famous carcinogen.

That first Earth Day was so important in part because we brought together a huge basket of different issues: urban air pollution, freeways cutting through neighborhoods, leaded paint, DDT, the Santa Barbara oil spill, rivers catching on fire.

Until recently, the last time anyone in Harpers Ferry heard the call of a peregrine falcon, was fifty years ago. This crow-sized raptor, whose natural range is the rugged coastal areas in North America, was nearly decimated by the pesticide DDT. Since the toxin was banned in 1972, the peregrine has made a slow but dramatic recovery.

DDT is an abbreviation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.

After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.

The use of DDT for disinfectation of louse-infested communities is a primary control measure in epidemic situations.