Respuesta :
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency with responsibility for regulating pesticides before the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, began regulatory actions in the late 1950s and 1960s to prohibit many of DDT's uses because of mounting evidence of the pesticide's declining benefits and environmental and toxicological effects."
Answer:
DDT was banned in the US for many reasons....
one reason was for its negative side effects and those were with reproduction problems, birth defects, cancer, and ecology all of these problems led to the ban of DDT in the US. DDT was used from (1939-1972).
Explanation:
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