LOS ANGELES—Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site, a report by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San Diego State University researchers found May 6.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of L.A. was a dumping ground for the nation’s largest manufacturer of the pesticide DDT—a chemical now known to harm humans and wildlife, according to researchers.
