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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 […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES L.A.-area and state officials call for quicker cleanup of Exide plant contamination Community members and activists gather in a backyard of a home east of downtown Los Angeles to mark the closure of the Exide Tchnologies battery recycling plant on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) BY Melanie Mason Frustrated […]

EGPNEWS.COM Assembly Questions Actions on Exide By Nancy Martinez, EGP Staff Writer Years of public outrage over the Exide Technologies’ contamination of cities and neighborhoods in the east and southeast Los Angeles area finally appears to be getting the attention of state legislators, likely in response to growing accusations that California has a double standard […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES EDITORIAL Why does affluent Porter Ranch get more urgent environmental relief than working-class Boyle Heights? View of the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The Times Editorial Board  Two Los Angeles communities. Two environmental nightmares. Two very different responses from Gov. Jerry Brown. At […]

HUFFPOST POLITICS ‘Help Us, Even Though Exide is Closed I’m Still Sick’  01/28/2016 01:28 am ET | Updated Jan 28, 2016 By Hilda L. Solis, Supervisor for First District in Los Angeles County; former U.S. Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013. In a powerful, solemn voice, Anthony Gutierrez appealed directly to the Los Angeles County Board of […]

“Why am I hearing about a plan to make another plan?” said Terry Gonzalez-Cano, whose Boyle Heights home was tested last year. She said the tests of her yard detected lead levels as high as 1,550 parts per million and that she was still waiting for it to be cleaned up. Clean up the properties […]

LOS ANGELES TIMES Exide cleanup: L.A. County supervisor wants independent oversight Shown is the now-shuttered Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) By TONY BARBOZA A Los Angeles County supervisor is urging California Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint an independent expert to oversee a soil cleanup of potentially […]

EGPNEWS.COM DTSC Accused of ‘Environmental Racism’ By EGP Staff Report Hundreds of people took to the streets of Vernon last week to call for the closure of Exide Techonologoes, an embattled lead-acid battery recycler in the city. “Stand by our side, shut down Exide,” chanted residents and environmental activists from Boyle Heights, Maywood and Huntington […]