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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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LAURELDALE, Pa. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced they'll be adding the area surrounding the former Exide Technologies facility in Laureldale to the Superfund National ...

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 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 ...

The battery maker Exide Technologies has filed for bankruptcy protection as it seeks to repair its finances amid rising costs for materials and the shutdown of an important operation. By Michael J. de ...