A bankruptcy plan by battery recycler Exide would allow it to walk away from California's largest environmental cleanup, leaving taxpayers to pay the bill ...

The cleanup of thousands of lead-contaminated homes near a closed Vernon battery recycler has been at a standstill for months, with regulators arguing they cannot remove tainted soil from any ...

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 of the site.

The 40-acre lead battery manufacturing and recycling site at 3000 Montrose Ave. began operating in the mid-1930s and was bought by Exide in 1987. The plant ceased battery manufacturing in 2010 and ...

Toxic waste remains in the soil and sediment around the former Exide lead battery plant, at levels that could pose a health risk. That claim — long argued by Berks County officials — has been ...

Guzzetti said his group will likely be on site for another 8-10 months, but it could get put on the EPA's national project list for more extensive work. "If it gets listed on the NPL, then yes ...