The head of the state agency overseeing toxic substances said it must radically improve communication with residents living near the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, where it is ...

The shuttered Exide Technologies in Vernon, responsible for a swath of lead and arsenic contamination stretching 1.7 miles in southeast Los Angeles County communities, is scheduled to be a Superfund ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday, Sept. 10 to send a message to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to officially list the shuttered Exide lead-acid battery plant in ...

The federal government has taken over the cleanup effort at the former Exide Technologies’ hazardous waste site in Muhlenberg Township as part of the Superfund program following the dissolution of the ...

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 ...