Por: Los Angeles Times 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 funding in California's environmental budget, state Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Yana Garcia said the state's proposal will dedicate $40.4 million in... + full article
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
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 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
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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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Editorial: Why do state regulators keep failing residents in Exide lead cleanup? | Los Angeles Times
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
EPA awards $1B to clean up 22 toxic waste sites nationwide | WPLG Local 10
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Los Angeles Times USA Nation February 10, 2023
California's largest and most expensive environmental cleanup has failed to properly remove lead pollution from some homes and neighborhoods near a notorious battery recycler in southeast Los Angeles County, leaving residents at continued risk, a Times investigation shows.... + más
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
Do you live near the old Exide lead-acid battery smelter? Check your property's cleanup status | Los Angeles Times
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