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, ...

or nearly a century a hulking industrial plant near downtown Los Angeles melted down car batteries to reclaim their lead. The facility, most recently owned by Exide Technologies, was shut down in 2015 ...

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 ...