CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES The mission of DTSC is to protect California’s people and environment from harmful effects of toxic substances by restoring contaminated resources, enforcing hazardous waste laws, reducing hazardous waste generation, and encouraging the manufacture of chemically safer products. Rescheduled Public Hearing Date for Exide’s Draft Closure Plan and DTSC’s Draft Environmental […]
BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE New plan to close former Exide site expected to be complete in early 2016 AMY WOLD|Â AWOLD@THEADVOCATE.COM Jan. 2, 2016; 2:26 p.m. Two years after the state Department of Environmental Quality denied a north Baton Rouge facility another extension to its halt in production, a revised cleanup plan is expected to be completed […]
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: The Story So Far How a battery recycler contaminated L.A.-area homes for decades CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO Unsettled: Exide | Video by Bethany Mollenkof and Spencer Bakalar. Tony Barboza Residents of southeast L.A. County rejoiced this year at news that a battery recycling plant that had long emitted lead, arsenic and other […]
LAW 360 Exide Investors Get Another Class Certification In Enviro Suit By Kali Hays Law360, New York (December 21, 2015, 3:33 PM ET) — A California federal judge has certified an additional class of investors accusing bankrupt automotive and industrial battery maker Exide Technologies’ executives of covering up the company’s failure to comply with environmental regulations, finding […]
KPCC – 89.3 Exide cleanup efforts are incomplete in most cases Elizabeth Aguilera October 28 2015 A sign posted in front one of the first houses in Boyle Heights that had its lead-tainted soil removed. MAYA SUGARMAN/KPCC AUDIO FROM THIS STORY CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO AUDIO – 4:48 minutes The state plans to significantly expand […]
KPCC -89.3 City of Industry battery recycler ordered to test for lead pollution Molly Peterson November 19 2015 Quemetco, Inc. in the City of Industry recycles 600 tons of lead from batteries each day. The battery recycler is pictured here on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. MAYA SUGARMAN/KPCC AUDIO FROM THIS STORY CLICK HERE TO LISTEN […]
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