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Maybe this is a generational thing because I did not think that DDT would need any explanation. It at least used to be a household name which everyone recognized.

A sentence like this one in paragraph 7?

> From 1947 to 1982, the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT — a pesticide so powerful that it poisoned birds and fish — was based in Los Angeles.

You're right. My expectations we wrong. I expected short concise news article, but this seems to be a long-form article. My bad.

Some decades ago, DDT was practically its brand name in the US, because of how well it worked on mosquitos. People used it in their backyards.