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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 ...

With a torrent of criticism swirling around California’s largest environmental cleanup, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Friday visited Boyle Heights and renewed his call for the federal Environmental ...

A long-awaited transformation is inching closer to reality in Frisco, thanks to a major boost in state funding aimed at cleaning up one of the region’s most toxic industrial sites. Texas State ...

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 ...

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 ...