DDT wars: rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating The Environmental Defense Fund

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DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972.;Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A New England Town Sprays Its Elm Trees with DDT -- How Did I Get into This? -- DDT Kills Birds but Doesn't Save the Trees -- 2. Sue the Bastards on Long Island: The Power of an Idea -- DDT Goes to Trial on Long Island -- Rigging the Audubon Convention -- A Wall Street Lawyer Was Unimpressed -- The Environmental Defense Fund Is Born -- 3. Proceed with Caution, then Sue the Bastards in Michigan -- The Suit Partly Unravels -- Another Win While Losing -- The Cities Cave In, Forget to Kick Us Out -- Evolving a Master Plan -- 4. On to Wisconsin, the Dairy State -- DDT Goes to Trial in Madison, Wisconsin -- Birds Die, Nests Fail -- DDT, Thin Eggshells, and Reduced Reproduction in Birds -- DDT Reduces Reproduction in Trout and Salmon -- Wayland Hayes: "DDT Is Absolutely Safe" -- A Toxicologist Arrives from Sweden -- The Task Force for DDT Questions the Analyses -- Confusion with PCBs -- Integrated Pest Management Without any DDT -- Summation: DDT Is a Pollutant in the Wisconsin Ecosystem -- To Make an Omelet, You will Break Some Eggs -- Mid-1969: Where Did We Stand, What Had We Accomplished? -- Final Verdict from the DDT Hearings in Wisconsin -- 5. EDF, Barely an Organization, Getting Its Act Together -- Environmental Defense Fund, or Fundless Environmental Defenders? -- 6. EDF Diversifies into New Environmental Arenas -- Early Battles -- The Environmental Decade: The 1970s -- Environmental Defense Fund: Biggest Bang for the Buck -- The Judicial Approach Is Contagious -- 7. Time to Go After the Feds -- What!? DDT Also Causes Cancer? -- What!? DDT Also Causes Mutations and Birth Defects? -- Both Federal Agencies React to the Petitions. Barely! -- The Environmental Defense Fund Takes Two Federal Agencies to Court -- The Appeals Court Makes an Historic Decision. Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A New England Town Sprays Its Elm Trees with DDT -- How Did I Get into This? -- DDT Kills Birds but Doesn't Save the Trees -- 2. Sue the Bastards on Long Island: The Power of an Idea -- DDT Goes to Trial on Long Island -- Rigging the Audubon Convention -- A Wall Street Lawyer Was Unimpressed -- The Environmental Defense Fund Is Born -- 3. Proceed with Caution, then Sue the Bastards in Michigan -- The Suit Partly Unravels -- Another Win While Losing -- The Cities Cave In, Forget to Kick Us Out -- Evolving a Master Plan -- 4. On to Wisconsin, the Dairy State -- DDT Goes to Trial in Madison, Wisconsin -- Birds Die, Nests Fail -- DDT, Thin Eggshells, and Reduced Reproduction in Birds -- DDT Reduces Reproduction in Trout and Salmon -- Wayland Hayes: "DDT Is Absolutely Safe" -- A Toxicologist Arrives from Sweden -- The Task Force for DDT Questions the Analyses -- Confusion with PCBs -- Integrated Pest Management Without any DDT -- Summation: DDT Is a Pollutant in the Wisconsin Ecosystem -- To Make an Omelet, You will Break Some Eggs -- Mid-1969: Where Did We Stand, What Had We Accomplished? -- Final Verdict from the DDT Hearings in Wisconsin -- 5. EDF, Barely an Organization, Getting Its Act Together -- Environmental Defense Fund, or Fundless Environmental Defenders? -- 6. EDF Diversifies into New Environmental Arenas -- Early Battles -- The Environmental Decade: The 1970s -- Environmental Defense Fund: Biggest Bang for the Buck -- The Judicial Approach Is Contagious -- 7. Time to Go After the Feds -- What!? DDT Also Causes Cancer? -- What!? DDT Also Causes Mutations and Birth Defects? -- Both Federal Agencies React to the Petitions. Barely! -- The Environmental Defense Fund Takes Two Federal Agencies to Court -- The Appeals Court Makes an Historic Decision. The Bruising Battle of the Briefs -- 8. Escalating the DDT Issue with More Court Cases -- Flushing Tons of DDT into the Los Angeles Sewer System -- What Happened to Montrose and Its Pollution Legacy After 1972? -- Bald Eagles Gone, Golden Eagles Move in -- 9. Changes in Washington Affect the DDT Battle -- EDF Begins to Expand: New People, New Washington Office -- 10. DDT Goes to Trial, Finally, in Washington, DC -- DDT: Global Contamination Problem -- Predatory Birds Pay the Price -- Mechanism for DDE-Induced Thin-Shelled Eggs -- Dangers of DDT to Fish and People Who Eat Them -- Superior Insect Control Without DDT -- Does DDT Cause Cancer? In Mice? Rats? Humans? -- DDT Industry Shortage of Qualified Witnesses -- 11. Ruckelshaus Decides -- The Ruckelshaus Decision: DDT Gets Canceled! Almost! -- Both Sides Appeal the Ruling to the Court of Appeals -- Passing the Test of Time -- They Are After Us Again-40 Years Later. Why? -- The Use of DDT for Controlling Malaria -- 12. Encores: Five More Bad Actors Were Dispatched -- Aldrin and Dieldrin on Trial: Suspension Mid-stream -- Heptachlor/Chlordane: Another Suspension Mid-stream -- Mirex Will "Eradicate" the Imported Fire Ant -- 13. The DDT Wars: Four Great Victories -- DDT Ban Led to Greater Cancer Prevention -- DDT Precedents Launched Environmental Law -- Remove the Threat and the Birds Will Recover -- EDF Today: Brilliant, Innovative, Optimistic, and Effective -- Epilogue: The Last Word by President Fred Krupp -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.