Lead Free Frisco

There is no more time to delay. Much damage has probably already been done to residents’ health. EGP worries that in many cases the damage cannot be reversed. EGPNEWS.COM EDITORIAL Dedicated Facilities Needed to Treat Lead Exposure By EGP Editorial The latest development in the number of cases of lead contamination from Exide Technologies comes […]

MYNEWSLA.COM County workers help 500 families near closed Exide battery plant POSTED BY HILLARY JACKSON ON APRIL 12, 2016 Batteries set for recycling of the kind at Exide plant. County workers have moved quickly to assess soil, arrange cleanup and reach out to 500 families living near the now-shuttered Exide Technologies battery recycling plant, where a recent study […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES County soil testing finds widespread contamination near former Exide plant Soil taken from a yard in Commerce near the now-shuttered Exide battery plant is tested in February by a team from the L.A. County Health Department. A new county report says that nearly all of the 500 homes sampled had enough lead […]

89.3 KPCC – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO Analysis finds high blood lead levels near Exide, doesn’t answer why BY Paul Glickman April 08 2016 The former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon. MAE RYAN/KPCC CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO AUDIO FROM THIS STORY – 0:43 secondsYoung children living near the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon […]

EGPNEWS.COM LAWMAKERS MOVE BILLS FOR EXIDE CLEANUP By Nancy Martinez, EGP Staff Writer When Teresa Marquez first heard that Gov. Jerry Brown was proposing $176.6 million to expedite and expand the cleanup of homes and other properties contaminated by a now-shuttered lead-acid battery recycling plant, she told herself and others, “I won’t believe it, until […]

“They pollute and leave,” says Monsignor John Moretta, of Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights who has been one of the central organizers in the fight against Exide. Moretta has few illusions about his neighborhood, whose residential streets taper off into tracts of warehouses and factories: “the armpit of L.A.,” he lovingly calls it. A large […]

CBS LOS ANGELES Former Exide Worker Dies Of Cancer He Feared Came About From Working At Plant March 29, 2016 6:14 PM LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Salvador Andrade always believed in the value of a hard day’s work. But Andrade also worried that his years of labor at the Exide battery-recycling plant in Vernon took a massive toll on his health. […]

NEWS RELEASE – U.S. Rep Loretta Sanchez REP. LORETTA SANCHEZ CALLS ATTENTION TO EXIDE POISONING VERNON & SOUTHEAST LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES Mar 29, 2016 Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) called attention to the toxic contamination produced by the Exide Technologies recycling plant and its damaging effects on the health of […]

Blood-testing data have guided government responses to lead contamination elsewhere. In Flint, Mich., the state is using maps of children’s blood lead levels to target neighborhoods hardest hit by the city’s lead-contaminated drinking water. But in California, officials have been unable to launch a similar effort. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control said it […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES High levels found in Exide area By Angelica Quintero In the Exide Technologies cleanup area, 547 residents under age 21 were found to have high levels of lead in their blood. Some census tracts with high lead counts overlapped with cleanup focus areas, which were selected based on wind patterns, proximity to the […]

89.3 KPCC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO Dispute over environmental review stalls Exide emergency cleanup bill  Elizabeth Aguilera March 23 2016 While more testing is expected, Exide and regulators are still negotiating over how to conduct the next stage of the work. The governor’s emergency funding for Exide clean up is stalled in the state Legislature […]

89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Exide: Nearly every property tested so far will need cleanup Elizabeth Aguilera March 22, 07:00 AM Members of the L.A. County Department of Public Health conduct soil tests in Commerce looking for lead contaminants left by the former Exide lead battery recycling plant in nearby Vernon. ELIZABETH AGUILERA/KPCC CLICK HERE […]

89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Environmental contamination in LA by Deepa Fernandes | Take Two March 04 2016 Exide begins to remove lead-polluted soil on Monday morning at a house on the 1200 block of La Puerta Street in Boyle Heights.MAYA SUGARMAN/KPCC Listen to this story 8 MIN 13 SEC by clicking here Here in Southern California, we’ve […]

CLICK HERE to go to LA County Department of Public Health Exide Response website  

LAW360 Exide Execs Pay $15M To Settle Investors’ Enviro Suit By Dani Meyer Law360, New York (March 8, 2016, 12:36 PM ET) — Investors in Exide Technologies told a California federal court Monday that they have reached a $14.75 million settlement with executives at the bankrupt automotive battery maker to end class allegations that they helped the company […]

EGPNEWS.COM County Begins Own Soil Testing Near Exide Assessor says he will review impact on property values. By Elizabeth Marcellino, City News Service Tired of waiting for state regulators, county teams are working in neighborhoods affected by contamination from the now-closed Exide battery plant to test soil and offer resources to residents, the Board of […]

Anyone who lives or works within a three-mile radius of the Vernon site can have one done. The free tests will be offered at the Benjamin Franklin Branch Library on 1st Street Saturday, March 19. CBS LOS ANGELES Health Officials Urge Those Who Live, Work Near Exide Facility To Get Blood Lead Test March 14, 2016 […]

EYCEJ and other community groups will be leading their own “Get the Lead Out” event Saturday, March 19 to register homes for soil testing. THE LAist Mayor Garcetti’s Action On Exide Cleanup Comes Late for Some BY MIGUEL CONTRERAS IN NEWS ON MAR 14, 2016 3:40 PM  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis were pounding the […]

Residents are encouraged to visit exidecleanup.lacity.org for more information. LOS ANGELES TIMES Officials reach out to neighbors of shuttered battery recycling plant concerned about lead contamination Mayor Eric Garcetti chats with residents in Boyle Heights on Saturday. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) BY Louis Sahagun A small army of volunteers led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti went door-to-door Saturday […]

Property owners with questions about the review can call the assessor’s office at (626) 258-6001. LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Homes in Exide contamination area could see property tax relief Homes near the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon could see property tax relief, said the county assessor. (2015 photo by Keith Birmingham/Pasadena Star-News)  By City News […]