Exide Technologies battery recycling plant located in Vernon. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Six years ago, state officials embarked on the largest environmental cleanup in California's history, a ...

Portions of the former Exide lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon are now wrapped in scaffolding and white plastic sheeting. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) For decades, families across a swath ...

A long-overlooked source of lead contamination in neighborhoods near a closed Vernon battery recycler could be cleaned under a push by state lawmakers to target the grassy strips between sidewalks and ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — In October of 2010, the Exide Technologies secondary lead smelter announced plans to conduct presentations, demonstrations and open houses for its neighbors, including nearby businesses ...

The market is poised for growth due to rising environmental regulations driving recycling practices, alongside the industry's ...

Exide Technologies has been allowed to abandon its former battery-recycling plant in Vernon, leaving the state -- and taxpayers -- on the hook to pay for continued environmental cleanup. VERNON, Calif ...

Imagine finding out that your yard, where your kids play and your fruit and vegetables grow, is contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, a powerful, brain-damaging poison with no safe level of ...

California has rejected a proposed settlement with Exide Technologies LLC, roiling the lead-acid battery maker’s push to walk away from a legacy of toxic contamination by way of bankruptcy court.

Six years ago, state officials embarked on the largest environmental cleanup in California's history, a sweeping effort to remove lead-contaminated soil from the yards of thousands of properties near ...

For decades, families across a swath of southeast Los Angeles County have lived in an environmental disaster zone, their kids playing in yards polluted with brain-damaging lead while they wait on a ...

A long-overlooked source of lead contamination in neighborhoods near a closed Vernon battery recycler could be cleaned under a push by state lawmakers to target the grassy strips between sidewalks and ...