Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Battery recycler Exide's problems aren't just local

Exide has closed or suspended operations at its Vernon plant and two others. Since 2010, seven plants nationally have been linked to health-risk levels of airborne lead.



Since she was 13, Tiffany Arroyo lived with the smoke and rotten-egg smell from an Exide battery-recycling plant just blocks from her grandparents' home in Laureldale, Pa.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/y69ItszhmPs/la-me-exide-pollute-20130530,0,1781022.story

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