Environmental
May 4, 2013
LA battery recycling plant faces legal headaches after state agency suspends operations
A lead acid battery recycling plant just south of downtown Los Angeles is under growing legal pressure after regulators reported that it has spewed dangerous levels of arsenic into the air and has possibly contaminated groundwater.




Daily Journal Staff Writer
A lead acid battery recycling plant just south of downtown Los Angeles is under growing legal pressure after regulators reported that it has spewed dangerous levels of arsenic into the air and is possibly contaminating groundwater.
The news has not only sparked securities class actions against the plant's owner, Georgia-based Exide Technologies, but an investigation by the Los Angeles city attorne...
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