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Portions of the Exide Technologies, a former lead-acid battery recycling plant, are wrapped in scaffolding and white plastic in Vernon, Oct. 6, 2020. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS file photo (2020))
Los Angeles’ federal deals give leniency to polluters
In 2015, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles made a deal with the CEO of one of Southern California’s most dangerous industrial facilities, a battery recycling plant that had contaminated thousands of nearby homes with lead dust.
Exide Technologies agreed to demolish its plant in Vernon and pay $50 million to cover the costs of decontaminating the site and cleaning up the mainly working-class Latino enclaves it had polluted. In return, prosecutors spared the company and its executives from criminal charges.
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