Por: Los Angeles Times Nation June 03, 2023
After heated criticism from community groups and environmental justice advocates, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has announced that it will publish detailed records of work done to remove lead-contaminated soil from properties surrounding the former Exide battery recycling plant in Southeast Los Angeles County. The records, which describe the removal of soils contaminated with brain-damaging lead, were initially intended... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation June 10, 2023
With a torrent of criticism swirling around California’s largest environmental cleanup, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Friday visited Boyle Heights and renewed his call for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to aid state efforts in removing lead contamination from... + más
Lawmakers demand EPA action on troubled cleanup of lead-contaminated L.A.-area homes | Los Angeles Times
EPA is urged to help clean up LA battery plant contamination | Associated Press
Los Angeles Times USA Opinion May 22, 2023
It’s about time. After years of being excluded from California’s largest environmental cleanup, there’s finally a proposal to remove lead-tainted soil from thousands of parkways — the publicly owned strips of land between people’s homes and the street — in... + más
Los Angeles Times USA Nation May 13, 2023
California's budget proposal commits $67 million to clean thousands of lead-contaminated parkways in front of homes, schools and parks near the former Exide battery smelter in southeast Los Angeles County, state officials announced Friday. At a news conference to discuss... + más
Editorial: California needs more than just money to stop bungling the Exide cleanup | Los Angeles Times
State agency forfeited cleanup funds for lead-contaminated parkways in Los Angeles County | Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times USA Science May 02, 2023
Under the watchful eyes of neighbors, scientists in white lab coats knelt to spread a flour-like mineral over a lawn in Huntington Park. The dusting of zeolite doesn't take long, but it could be key to mitigating a disaster that has festered for decades across southeast Los... + más
This is the right way to get rid of dust in your home | WPTV
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Associated Press USA Politics February 19, 2023
VERNON, Calif. (AP) — Members of Congress asked the federal government to help clean up toxic lead contamination from a former battery recycling plant outside Los Angeles.Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla joined Long Beach Rep. Robert Garcia in appealing Thursday to the... + más
Denka sues EPA over 'politically-driven' air pollution rules | The Advocate
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Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 17, 2023
Amid California's long struggle to hold an industrial polluter accountable and remove lead contamination from neighborhoods southeast of downtown Los Angeles, members of Congress are now calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to assist in the troubled... + más
EPA awards $1B to clean up 22 toxic waste sites nationwide | WPLG Local 10
EPA awards $1 billion to clean up 22 toxic waste sites nationwide | Portland Press Herald
Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 10, 2023
Six years ago, state officials embarked on the largest environmental cleanup in California's history, a sweeping effort to remove lead-contaminated soil from the yards of thousands of properties near a shuttered battery recycling plant in southeast Los Angeles County. For... + más
Montana site fouled by copper smelter to get final cleanup | WPLG Local 10
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