Exide Technologies

State regulators took the highly unusual step Wednesday of suspending operations at a Vernon battery recycler that has discharged harmful quantities of lead for years and more recently has been deemed to pose a danger to as many as 110,000 people...

State regulators announced Wednesday that they are temporarily shutting down a Vernon battery recycler that has been under fire for posing a danger to as many as 110,000 people because of arsenic emissions. The state Department of Toxic Substances...

Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) on Friday asked the state Department of Toxic Substances Control to take "immediate action" on dangerous arsenic emissions from a battery recycling plant in Vernon. Last month,  the South Coast Air...

Los Angeles City Council members Wednesday expressed fury at recent revelations that arsenic emissions from a battery-recycling plant in nearby Vernon pose a danger to as many as 110,000 people, and called upon the city attorney to look into possible...

Earning Junior All-American honors even once in the competitive world of junior golf is noteworthy enough. Now, though, Shannon Aubert is starting to join some exclusive company. The Pine School junior has been named to the American Junior Golf...

Samantha Wagner of Windermere and Orlando’s Tae Wan Lee will represent the East at next month’s Wyndham Cup team matches, named among 32 of the nation’s top juniors who will compete July 23-26 at Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Lee owns four top-...

Driving across the 850 acres of golf course he tends to daily, Jim Roney pointed out a chestnut tree that sustained significant damage during the harsh storms of 2011. "This is one my favorite trees," he said, "and it really took it on the chin....

Exide Technologies has announced a multi-million-dollar expansion at its Salina plant. The battery maker will add between 100 and 130 new jobs over the next two years. The plant currently employs just more than 600.

Southern California air pollution officials have moved to curb toxic emissions from two lead acid battery recycling plants in Los Angeles County. The regulations are designed to meet the 2008 federal limits on airborne lead pollution, the first new lead.....

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