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

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.

Now lawmakers are trying to figure out what they actually meant when they approved CEQA exemptions last year.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The now-closed Exide Technologies lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon, shown in 2020. State officials are proposing ...

After heated criticism from community groups and environmental justice advocates, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has announced that it will publish detailed records of work done ...

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 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 ...