The case convinced the Suffolk County Legislature to ban DDT.

Wealthy nations that banned DDT at home will not pay for its use elsewhere.

The regulators who banned DDT also failed to take into consideration the inadequacy of alternatives.

In 1972, the United States banned DDT, only to find out, years later, that the evidence of the pesticide's harmful effects on human beings is inconclusive.

Most important, in 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT.

Ruckelshaus was under a storm of pressure to ban DDT.

Within a decade after the federal government banned DDT in 1972, eagle populations everywhere started to rebound.

He introduced bills to ban DDT and to limit cars to one per family, but neither was passed.

They then succeeded in banning DDT statewide.

The state banned DDT in 1971 and chlordane in 1985.