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. VERNON, Calif ...

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 ...

VERNON, Calif. (KABC) -- The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday the permanent closure of a battery recycling plant in Vernon operated by Exide Technologies. The company will also pay $50 ...

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 ...