The former Exide Technologies battery plant in Muhlenberg Township and Laureldale has been shuttered since 2013, but a team of workers remains within its walls. Their job? To clear the plant of toxic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exide Technologies battery recycling plant located in Vernon. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Six years ago, state officials embarked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portions of the closed Exide lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon, seen in October 2020 wrapped in white plastic. (Al Seib ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exide Technologies hasn't operated battery recycling in Vernon since 2014. Its former building is seen here in October 2020. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) A battery recycling plant in southeast Los ...

Six years ago, state officials embarked on the largest environmental cleanup in California's history, a sweeping effort to remove lead-contaminated soil from the yards of thousands of properties near ...

Imagine finding out that your yard, where your kids play and your fruit and vegetables grow, is contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, a powerful, brain-damaging poison with no safe level of ...