A worker with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice collects soil samples from the community garden in Boyle Heights, inside the area contaminated by the former Exide battery recycling ...

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Even after one of the largest environmental remediation efforts in California history, dangerous levels of lead persist in residential neighborhoods surrounding a former battery smelter in Southeast ...

LOS ANGELES — Homes near a former battery recycler in Southeast Los Angeles County still have excessive lead in their soil, even after the state spent hundreds of millions of dollars over a decade to ...