60 Years of Silent Spring: Rachel Carson's Enduring Legacy on Science and Environmental Protection

The book provides strong scientific evidence of the enormous harms pesticides such as DDT pose to public health and the environment.

It galvanized the environmental movement and it pushed the federal government and Congress to carry out scientific research on pesticide contamination and to act on that research.

While every toxic chemical named in the book was either banned or severely restricted in the United States.

Sixty years later, the landmark environmental book--and the chemical industry's disinformation campaign about it--have much to teach us about the need for science-based safeguards.