Por: Los Angeles Times 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 nearly a century, a succession of companies, most recently Exide Technologies, melted lead-acid car batteries at the Vernon plant. Its emissions blanketed the lawns of... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 20, 2023
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... + más
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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
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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
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Los Angeles Times USA Politics February 14, 2023
This story originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Last year's Super Bowl was a hotbed for advertisements focused on solving the climate crisis. This year, not so much. There... + más
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Los Angeles Times USA Politics February 10, 2023
Imagine finding out that your yard, where your kids play and your fruit and vegetables grow, is contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, a powerful, brain-damaging poison with no safe level of exposure. You wait for years for a slow-moving state bureaucracy to get around to... + más
Lawmakers demand EPA action on troubled cleanup of lead-contaminated L.A.-area homes | Los Angeles Times
Do you live near the old Exide lead-acid battery smelter? Check your property's cleanup status | Los Angeles Times
Associated Press USA Business October 01, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A subsidiary of London-based oil giant BP agreed to finish its cleanup of a in Montana that’s contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants from decades of copper smelting, and to repay the U.S. government $48 million in response costs. Under a legal... + más
Montana site fouled by copper smelter to get final cleanup | WPLG Local 10
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WPLG Local 10 USA Politics October 01, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. – A subsidiary of London-based oil giant BP agreed to finish its cleanup of a in Montana that's contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants from decades of copper smelting, and to repay the U.S. government $48 million in response costs. Under a legal... + más
Montana site fouled by copper smelter to get final cleanup | Associated Press
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