The head of the state agency overseeing toxic substances said it must radically improve communication with residents living near the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, where it is ...

VERNON, Calif. (KABC) -- A decades-long battle to clean up contamination in Vernon and surrounding communities is getting a new boost from Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget. Neighbors and activists ...

Imagine finding out that your yard, where your kids play and your fruit and vegetables grow, is contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, a powerful, brain-damaging poison with no safe level of ...

Four Los Angeles-area state legislators announced Thursday that they have introduced a bill to provide $540.4 million to fund a clean-up of 10,000 homes polluted by the nearby Exide Technologies ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. — A Wisconsin-based commercial real estate firm acquired the former battery plant on Exide Drive earlier this year with the intention of renovating and leasing it.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has earmarked up to $454 million in his revised budget to clean up lead and arsenic spread throughout southeast Los Angeles county by the former Exide battery recycling plant. The ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Another several hundred workers will be without jobs come Friday, the last day at Exide Technologies for those targeted by the battery maker’s layoff plans. In a region already ...

The fallout continues from the cleanup of the now-defunct Exide recycled battery plant in Vernon. There is a lot of frustration over how the cleanup is going within the community. Both California's ...