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Years after pledging to recover cleanup costs from those responsible for spreading lead pollution over thousands of homes in southeast Los Angeles County, California regulators have finally filed suit against multiple companies connected to the closed Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. The action notably excludes Exide, which under a recently approved bankruptcy plan was allowed to walk away from the half-demolished hazardous site and stick California taxpayers with much of t...

By City News Service Dec 18, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The family of a woman who was killed as a result of a police gunfight with a suspect outside the Trader Joes store in Silver Lake where she worked said today they want to meet with new Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon and ask him to re-evaluate whether the officers acted lawfully. Melyda “Mely Corados father, Albert Corado, urged the countys top prosecutor to “please step up to the plate to take a new look at the prose...

California sues to recover costs for Exide lead cleanup, but community still wants justice Tony Barboza © (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Portions of the former Exide Technologies lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon, seen in October, are wrapped in plastic to prevent the release of lead and other contaminants. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Years after pledging to recover cleanup costs from those responsible for spreading lead pollution over thousands of homes in southea...

By City News Service Dec 18, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The family of a woman who was killed as a result of a police gunfight with a suspect outside the Trader Joes store in Silver Lake where she worked said today they want to meet with new Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon and ask him to re-evaluate whether the officers acted lawfully. Melyda “Mely Corados father, Albert Corado, urged the countys top prosecutor to “please step up to the plate to take a new look at the prose...