Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off LA coast mercedsunstar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mercedsunstar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
First it was the eerie images of barrels leaking on the seafloor not far from Catalina Island. Then the shocking realization that the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water.
Scientists uncover high amounts of pure DDT off L A coast latimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from latimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) The federal investigation into the historic toxic waste dumpsites off the coast of Los Angeles and Catalina, an island southwest of the second largest U.S. city, exposed a far more extensive spread of DDT and other toxic chemicals than anyone had previously estimated.
LOS ANGELES After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse and far more sweeping than what scientists anticipated.