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In another legal offensive, the Environmental Defense Fund last week sought a federal court injunction against the Montrose Chemical Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of DDT, and the county sanitation districts of Los Angeles. According to E.D.F., the defendants are illegally dumping vast quantities of DDT byproducts and waste into the Los Angeles sewage system, which then flow into the estuaries and coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay.
E.D.F. suggests that such discharges may be the chief source of DDT in Southern California waterways, and adds that the pesticide, which may endanger humans, has already caused the near extinction of the brown pelican.