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EXIDE VERNON: Public hearing date for Exide’s draft closure plan and the DTSC’s Draft Environmental Impact Report rescheduled to Feb. 3

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January 12, 2016 in Lastest News

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 […]

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EXIDE VERNON BREAKING NEWS: Exide can’t put together proper closure plan, but absolves itself of blame for California’s largest toxic cleanup and public health threat

August 26, 2015 in CA, California, Clean up of Vernon lead smelter site, Clean-up of Exide lead smelter site, Exide Vernon, Exide's Negative Impact on Other Communities, Lastest News, Lead Contamination Maps

STREETSBLOGLA.COM Exide: Can’t Put Together Proper Closure Plan but Absolves Itself of Blame for Massive Public Health Disaster Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Sahra Sulaiman “I want you to take a good look at me, ” a fragile-looking young man with a curved spine, hunched shoulders, and gangly arms addressed members of the Exide Community Advisory Committee […]

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EXIDE VERNON UPDATE: DTSC orders Exide to completely remove blast furnace feed material that Exide was supposed to have moved in May and is still storing in an unauthorized manner; DTSC says continued storage of the toxic material is not appropriate and removal is necessary to human health and the environment; DTSC gives Exide until July 8 to submit new plan that includes moving of hazardous material to facility authorized to accepted toxic waste (MAKE NOTE FOLKS IN MUNCIE, INDIANA); Exide update summary indicates that loose lead and other materials may already have been moved to Exide’s Munice lead smelter, and such must be done in accordance with an approved Closure Plan, BUT DTSC has not approved such a plan for Exide’s Vernon lead smelter

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July 9, 2015 in CA, California, Clean up of Vernon lead smelter site, Exide Bankruptcy, Exide Vernon, Exide's Negative Impact on Other Communities, Lastest News

DTSC is concerned that the feed material in the Blast Furnace Feed Room has not yet been completely removed. As stated in the letter dated May 13, 2015, DTSC has already determined that storage of this material is not appropriate and removal is necessary to protect human health and the environment. Storage of this material […]

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EXIDE VERNON UPDATE: California Department of Toxic Substances issues Exide a Notice of Deficiency for its proposed closure plan for its troubled lead smelter; DTSC details how Exide’s plan did not fulfill standards specified in the California Code of Regulations for closure of hazardous waste facilities

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July 9, 2015 in CA, California, Clean up of Vernon lead smelter site, Clean-up of Exide lead smelter site, Clean-up of Frisco Exide lead smelter site, Exide Vernon, Exide's Negative Impact on Other Communities, Lastest News

On June 17, 2015, the California Department of Toxic Substances issued Exide a NOTICE OF DEFICIENCY FOR CLOSURE PLAN regarding the company’s proposed plan to close its troubled and toxic lead smelter. Exide submitted the plan on May 15. According to the DTSC: “The Notice of Deficiency is extensive. The Notice of Deficiency provides comments that […]

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