State and local leaders are to gather in Boyle Heights Friday and tour a contaminated neighborhood that is still reeling from the fallout of the now-defunct Exide recycled battery plant in Vernon.

A recycler in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries for a century and there is still lead in people's yards ...

It’s about time. After years of being excluded from California’s largest environmental cleanup, there’s finally a proposal to remove lead-tainted soil from thousands of parkways — the publicly owned ...

California’s budget proposal commits $67 million to clean thousands of lead-contaminated parkways in front of homes, schools and parks near the former Exide battery smelter in southeast Los Angeles ...

A long-awaited transformation is inching closer to reality in Frisco, thanks to a major boost in state funding aimed at cleaning up one of the region’s most toxic industrial sites. Texas State ...

As a study out of UC Irvine finds excessive lead near Vernon, advocates want retesting and an expansion of the clean up zone.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exide Technologies hasn't operated battery recycling in Vernon since 2014. Its former building is seen here in October 2020. (Al ...

A threat rests silently in the soil on properties bordering the former Exide Technologies facility in Muhlenberg Township and Laureldale. Traces of toxic lead emitted by the battery plant have been ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended adding the shuttered Exide Technologies lead battery recycling facility in East Baton Rouge Parish to the Superfund National Priorities List, which ...