Exide Technologies, a Vernon battery recycler, has long faced scrutiny for spewing lead and arsenic into neighborhoods in southeast Los Angeles County. Here is a selection of Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

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, ...

Lead-acid battery maker intends to sell its North American operations after Chapter 11 proceedings. Exide Technologies is likely to emerge from bankruptcy as different companies in different parts of ...

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 ...