... a waste disposal permit system, inspect, and fine if any one of these is in violation. This law was the first step in the creation of the Superfund Law (Daniels). The Silent Spring: The public was not aware of these horrors of industry and the toxic chemicals released into their neighborhoods until a book by Rachel Carson, The ... Silent Spring, was published in 1962. Her book focused on the spraying of a pesticide for mosquitoes called DDT that was sprayed onto crops all across America and around the world. It was ... road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chan...

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... best be exemplified as early as 1960 with the mass reduction of DDT use. The insecticide was used widely and indiscriminately for years until Rachel Carson's publication of the book Silent Spring in 1962 [Kline, 83]. Once the American public learned of the widespread devastation that DDT caused throughout the food chain it was banned from use on a state and finally federal ... level. Had the American government not reacted to the evidence provided by Silent Spring certain wildlife populations could have been wiped out entirely. Environmental activism significantly increased during the 6...

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