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, ...

For decades, the negligent operators of Exide Technologies, a battery recycling facility, emitted lead, arsenic and other toxic contaminants into people’s homes, communities and the environment.

Battery recycler Exide Technologies will permanently close its Vernon plant and avoid criminal charges under an agreement between the company and the U.S. attorney’s office reached Wednesday night.

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 ...

Portions of the former Exide lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon are now wrapped in scaffolding and white plastic sheeting. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) For decades, families across a swath ...

State environmental regulators have asked that the abandoned Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon be declared a federal Superfund site. The small city with a population of less than 2,000 on the ...

FRISCO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - The City of Frisco and Exide Technologies have a revised plan for cleaning up the battery recycling company's closed operating plant site and protecting Stewart Creek from ...

Young children play in the back yard under the shade of an avocado tree. The kids dig holes while their grandfather makes homemade guacamole. It's a scene that's played out at the Mariz family home in ...

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FRISCO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - For nearly two decades, Frisco leaders have talked about a plan to turn one of the last large undeveloped sections of the city into one of the largest urban parks in the ...