DDT became a prime target of the growing anti-chemical and anti-pesticide movements, and in 1967 a group of scientists and lawyers founded the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) with the specific goal of enacting a ban on DDT.
O DDT converteuse na principal diana das críticas dos movementos antipesticidas e antiquímicos que estaban en crecemento, e en 1967 un grupo de científicos e avogados fundaron o Environmental Defense Fund (EDF, Fondo de Defensa Medioambiental) co obxectivo específico de que se aprobase a prohibición do DDT.