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The deal federal prosecutors struck with Exide Technologies this month to permanently close its battery recycling plant in Vernon and avoid criminal charges marks the beginning of a long and costly ...

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 ...

Protesters rally last October outside of Exide Technologies in Vernon. (Christina House / For The Times) Executives and investors of Exide Technologies, the firm that has owned a spectacularly ...

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, ...

Air district officials filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking up to $40 million from a Vernon battery recycler accused of posing a health risk for emitting too much lead and arsenic. The South Coast Air ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, there have been reports of toxic contamination from the Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon: leaks of toxic chemicals, including arsenic; emission of so much lead that children were ...

VERNON (CBSLA.com) — Children who live near the former Exide Technologies battery-recycling plant in Vernon have higher levels of lead in their blood than those who live a greater distance away, ...

VERNON (CBSLA.com) — A lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon has laid off more than 100 employees, weeks after the facility was shut down by air-quality regulators. A spokesperson for Exide ...

Exide Technologies -- little-known locally, yet globally renowned -- unwrapped a research laboratory at its Milton headquarters Wednesday, a $4 million bet that lead-acid batteries will increasingly ...