Exide Technologies has been allowed to abandon its former battery-recycling plant in Vernon, leaving the state -- and taxpayers -- on the hook to pay for continued environmental cleanup. Tuesday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portions of the former Exide lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon are now wrapped in scaffolding and white plastic sheeting ...

VERNON, Calif. (KABC) -- The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday the permanent closure of a battery recycling plant in Vernon operated by Exide Technologies. The company will also pay $50 ...

A controversial Exide recycling plant near downtown Los Angeles will permanently close down under an agreement reached late Wednesday night with the U.S. attorney's office. The battery recycling plant ...

March 1, 2016: This post has been updated below to include a response from the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). Months of public attention and focused government action recently ended ...

The second phase of the cleanup of two residential neighborhoods near the Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon began Friday. Crews began removing contaminated soil from two yards in Boyle Heights ...

Exide Technologies in Frisco will close by Dec. 31 under a deal reached with the city of Frisco, and the city will buy 179 acres of undeveloped land around the battery recycling plant, which sits ...

For decades, families across a swath of southeast Los Angeles County have lived in an environmental disaster zone, their kids playing in yards polluted with brain-damaging lead while they wait on a ...