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After Battery Plant Contaminated Neighborhoods, Lawmakers Demand Future Reform

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In Sacramento, state lawmakers are applauding the closure of the Exide battery recycling plant in the city of Vernon, just south of Los Angeles. The plant had been leaking lead and arsenic into some neighborhoods. Under a federal agreement, company officials won't face criminal charges, but will have to demolish and clean up the plant site.

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