Business
Battery maker Exide Technologies files for bankruptcy protection
June 10, 2013
Science & Medicine
A federal grand jury is investigating Exide Technologies, the company under scrutiny for emitting high levels of harmful pollutants from its battery recycling plant in Vernon, according to a financial disclosure filed this week.
Aug. 15, 2014
California
Residents blast bankruptcy plan by battery recycler Exide to abandon its Vernon plant, which is blamed for polluting neighborhoods with lead.
Oct. 13, 2020
Residents of southeast L.A.
Dec. 21, 2015
Opinion
Exide’s battery plant in Vernon caused devastating pollution to adjacent neighborhoods, but it looks like the company won’t have to pay for cleanup.
It’s simply unacceptable to let a serial polluter walk away, leaving the community to suffer.
Oct. 9, 2020
Los Angeles County is considering legal action against a Vernon battery recycler accused of threatening the health of nearby residents with its lead and arsenic emissions.
Nov. 12, 2014
A bankruptcy court let Exide walk away from its toxic contamination. California leaders cannot let this happen again.
Oct. 21, 2020
A bankruptcy court says Exide Technologies can abandon its toxic battery recycling plant in Vernon, leaving a massive cleanup to California taxpayers.
Oct. 16, 2020
Allowing Exide to abandon its battery plant sets a terrible precedent by sticking California taxpayers will the cleanup bill.
Oct. 20, 2020