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State agency forfeited cleanup funds for lead-contaminated parkways in Los Angeles County

Por: Los Angeles Times Nation February 20, 2023

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As congressional representatives urge federal officials to assist California's struggling, $750-million effort to remove brain-damaging lead from neighborhoods surrounding the shuttered Exide battery recycling plant, The Times has learned that the agency in charge of the project has forfeited millions of dollars earmarked for the cleanup of heavily contaminated parkways. Although officials with the state Department of Toxic Substances... + full article



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