Rachel Carson’s legacy includes the ban on pesticides like DDT in the United States but a cocktail of other dangerous chemicals is still in use. Frank Graham is an editor with the Audubon Society and author of a follow up to Carson’s work”Since Silent Spring”. Graham talks to host Steve Curwood about the use of pesticides in the US then and now.
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