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 ...

For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles: How, exactly, ...

The Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site, an area of contaminated sediment, faces renewed concerns over chemicals dumped into the ocean. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: I knew that ...

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. It was out of sight, out of mind — a not-so-secret secret that haunted the marine environment ...

The insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, DDT, was hailed as a miracle bug blaster in the 1940s, then demonized as a wildlife destroyer in the 1960s. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

Deep sea fish are contaminated with the pesticide DDT and other related chemicals off the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast and beyond, according to a study released this week. The fish, as well as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In internal memos made public recently, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that acid waste from ...

To the editor: I knew that thousands of barrels likely containing DDT had been casually dumped off the coast of California and Catalina Island decades ago, and it still shocks and appalls me. But to ...