Lead Free Frisco

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 […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES  EDITORIAL Where’s the urgency in cleaning up the Exide battery plant mess? A man waters his new lawn in August after the California Department of Toxic Substances Control replaced the soil. Lead contamination had been found on his Boyle Heights property. (Los Angeles Times) The Times Editorial BoardContact Reporter State environmental regulators […]

KPCC 89.3 – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO Soil sampling in Maywood, Bell marks new phase in Exide lead pollution investigation Crews removed soil from remediation areas near Exide last year; now they’re investigating a wider area, as much as 1.7 miles away from the Vernon battery recycler.  MAYA SUGARMAN/KPCC Molly Peterson  October 29, 08:06 AM CLICK […]

CBS LOS ANGELES Neighbors Of Exide Battery Plant: State Failing To Test, Clean Up Contaminated Soil October 28, 2015 10:49 PM COMMERCE (CBSLA.com) — Neighbors of the shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon showed up to a packed community meeting on Wednesday night to express their outrage with the lack of progress that has been made in testing and cleaning […]

KPCC – 89.3 – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO Exide cleanup efforts are incomplete in most cases A sign posted in front one of the first houses in Boyle Heights that had its lead-tainted soil removed. MAYA SUGARMAN/KPCC CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE AUDIO FROM THIS STORY – 4:48 minutes October 28 2015 Elizabeth Aguilera The state […]

BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT County assigns $2 million to expedite Exide cleanup October 28, 2015 |  By Boyle Heights Beat Photo by Art Torres The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will spend $2 million to help speed the cleanup of contaminated soil in Boyle Heights and other Eastside neighborhoods near the closed Exide battery recycling plant in […]

Salvador Andrade worked in the Exide facility for 28 years. He remembers how black smoke from the plant, a byproduct of burning as many as 40,000 used batteries a day, would cling to his clothes. Those smokestacks spewed toxic emissions for eight decades before it shut down earlier this year. Andrade had to quit working […]

CBS LOS ANGELES County Supervisor Calls For Immediate Action Regarding Lead Contamination Near Exide Facility October 20, 2015 6:59 PM LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Days after experts confirmed CBS2’s Randy Paige’s findings of lead contamination near a former Exide Battery-Recycling Facility, Los Angeles County Supervisor Linda Solis has called for immediate action in a motion […]

CAPITOL WATCHDOG Why Does It Take KCBS To Do Top Toxics Regulator’s Job? Submitted by Liza Tucker on Thu, 10/15/2015 – 12:11 UPDATE: 12 hours after we posted this blog, top DTSC and Los Angeles County Environmental Health Department inspectors descended on a home where a toddler lives near the now-shuttered Exide lead battery recycler […]

Los Angeles County Director of Environmental Health Angelo Bellomo says that if the State doesn’t notify the residents of the dangers in the estimated 10,000 homes, then the County will. State and County investigators today said that the contamination CBS2/KCAL9 found requires, “immediate action”. The real question is, how many more days will the children […]

CBS2/KCAL9 rented a device certified by the EPA to provide instant readings of the amount of lead in soil or dust. The state says that residential soil with more than 80 parts per million should be removed because even tiny amounts of lead can affect young children’s brains, causing learning disabilities and other serious problems. The […]

CLICK TO GET MORE INFORMATION FROM THE HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL CLICK TO READ COMMUNITY COALITION’S COMMENTS TO U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MUNCIEVOICE.COM Exide Technologies Gets a Pass to Keep Polluting Muncie Despite Calls from Elected Officials, Environmental and Health Groups, Feds Deny Requests for Added Protections from Lead Pollution MUNCIE, Indiana NEWS – Indiana’s largest environmental policy organization […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES California’s toxics enforcer is given sharper teeth Neighbors of the Exide Technologies battery-recycling plant, shown, have complained that the state has been too slow to test and clean up lead-contaminated parcels surrounding the Vernon plant, which is now closed.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) October 2, 2015, 7:59 p.m. […]

“The fact that [Exide] was allowed to operate for so long in violation of basic environmental standards definitely makes it a poster child of environmental injustice,” said Rachel Morello-Frosch, a public health professor at the University of California, Berkeley. THE DAILY BEAST SICKENING ‘How Much Are These Brown Lives Worth?’: Latino Community Says Lead Battery Recycling […]

THE MUNCIE STAR PRESS Environmental groups unhappy with lead smelter settlement September 29, 2015 MUNCIE, IND. — A proposed settlement of alleged Clean Air Act violations involving a Muncie company’s lead smelter has upset environmental groups because the agreement doesn’t require the firm to retrofit its complex with equipment that could dramatically cut lead emissions. The […]

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY EPA plans more aggressive civil-rights reviews Stung by criticism that it doesn’t properly investigate discrimination claims, the agency promises reforms By Kristen Lombardi 7 hours, 13 minutes ago Updated: 2 hours, 51 minutes ago A truck drives toward a dumping area at the Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Alabama. John Brecher/NBC News The Environmental […]

89.3 KPCC – Southern California Public Radio Residents question why Exide’s contamination cleanup included yards but not sidewalk strips Parkways along La Puerta Street in Boyle Heights were not cleaned up when contamination clean up crews came through to dig up yards and replace sod. The parkways belong to the city and the Department of […]

CITY OF COMMERCE, CA NEWS RELEASE The Commerce City Council and staff has been working with state representatives to ensure residents and businesses are informed of the findings by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and South Coast Air Quality Management District regarding the Exide Technology Facility cleanup. The City Council will receive a […]

The proposed final closure plan for the landfill is available on Exide’s website at exidefriscoclosure.com. Public comments will be accepted through Sept. 24. DALLAS MORNING NEWS Landfill proposal a key step in Exide cleanup plan  G.J. McCarthy/Staff Photographer Aerial photograph shows abandoned structures on the former site of Exide Technologies in Frisco. By VALERIE WIGGLESWORTH Follow @vlwigg vwigglesworth@dallasnews.com […]