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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">\u003cstrong>By Debbie Elliott,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/05/14/312181116/too-young-to-smoke-but-not-to-pick-tobacco\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Kids under 18 can't buy cigarettes in the U.S., but they can legally work in tobacco fields when they're as young as 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">One of those kids is Eddie Ramirez, 15, who works the fields in the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"T\u003cspan style=\"color: #111111\">he rows are narrow and the tobacco is really big. 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The group interviewed more than 140 kids in 2012 and 2013, including Eddie, who work on tobacco farms in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">From the sparse mobile home he shares with his mother in Snow Hill, N.C., Eddie describes feeling lightheaded and queasy after a 12-hour day in the tobacco fields.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">\"In the mornings, tobacco is wet because of the dew and, like, the rows are narrow and the tobacco is really big. You just feel like you're suffocating or can't breathe really well,\" he says. \"You just want to stop and not do it no more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Eddie, who's in the eighth grade, is hired by contractors who provide labor to growers in the area. His family came here from Honduras when he was 7. By the time he was 12, Eddie says, he had started working in the fields alongside his mother to help make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">\"We found that the overwhelming majority of kids we interviewed got sick while they were working in tobacco fields with nausea, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness,\" says Human Rights Watch researcher Margaret Wurth. \"And many of the symptoms they reported are consistent with acute nicotine poisoning, which happens when workers absorb nicotine through their skin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">No one tracks how many kids work on tobacco farms, so there's no way to know how common or widespread the practice is. But Human Rights Watch argues that it's too hazardous and should be illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, says the report points out a gaping hole in U.S. labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">\"It's outrageous that in 2014, children are still working in tobacco farms. It is well-known how dangerous exposure both to nicotine and to the many pesticides used on tobacco is to kids,\" Myers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Congress has resisted changing farm labor laws, and the Labor Department \u003ca style=\"font-style: inherit;color: #4774cc\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/27/151532873/obama-administration-backs-down-from-new-child-labor-rules-on-farms\" target=\"_blank\">withdrew proposed stricter standards\u003c/a> for kids in 2012 under political pressure. Human Rights Watch is now calling on major tobacco companies to get kids out of the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">The report notes that tobacco giant Philip Morris International has the most comprehensive child labor policy — but that it doesn't go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Miguel Coleta, director of external labor policies at PMI, says the child labor abuses outlined by Human Rights Watch violate company guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">\"If children are doing hazardous work, that has to stop,\" Coleta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">But Coleta says there are roles for kids younger than 18 on farms, under the right conditions. For example, he says, \"ensuring that whatever children are doing on the farm is appropriate to their age and is not something that is undermining their health or their future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Top U.S. cigarette makers, including Altria and R.J. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul-w-locke/3849016443/in/photolist-6S8dut-9LRutM-8YmHem-aqg2sC-2ywFK8-dN2e9b-7GBePg-aDSwEo-csMBNC-9hE4j9-9wpRd5-c13yB3-deUPez-8nBLgJ-cfnnEJ-8kzYzM-7Mq3bq-dY7ZM-aowdxy-aaxMY2-au3E95-3dYZDg-aoxi41-7MoDtw-38GR1K-sGdyV-ayHQqr-NPBY2-co2oo5-4Q2oj6-cDEo3G-8GhAtS-3eic6B-bCdCg3-9uFCg3-6HStro-24erFm-atZDXa-7Uoh4A-egGgUo-9cqkMP-atZVS2-aE8cc9-2kFZqA-atZF1T-dd77vL-3GrytX-avLrhK-ftbWhj-9Latke\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-19079\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/3849016443_b0c6b90277_b-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Emotional symptoms such as frustration, and sleep difficulty can start more than a week after the initial injury and may be a sign of more serious concussion. 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But those physical symptoms may evolve into emotional symptoms during the days and weeks after an injury according to \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/05/07/peds.2014-0158.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">a study \u003c/a>published Monday in the journal \u003cem>Pediatrics\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, headaches and fatigue were the most common symptoms immediately following a concussion, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School. But emotional symptoms such as frustration, irritability, restlessness, and sleep difficulty were seen in up to 17 percent of patients a week or more after injury and may be a marker of a more serious concussion.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study followed 235 patients, ages 11-22 years old, at their initial visit to the emergency department for a concussion and then for 12 weeks following their concussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For individuals who have a prolonged recovery [greater than 14 days], emotional or behavioral symptoms tend to occur later and may reflect different pathophysiology,” said Dr. Christopher Giza in an email. He's a pediatric neurologist at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Collins, a neuropsychologist and executive director of the University of Pittsburgh Sports Medicine Concussion Program, also believes that concussions with emotional symptoms may represent a unique subset of patients who have concussion. In particular, he believes that this kind of concussion is the result of injury to the nervous system that assists in balance and coordination. the vestibular system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Collins says that some of the research suggests that there are unusual processes in the system the helps with balance and coordination -- what doctors call the vestibular system -- \"that may provoke emotional changes following concussions.\" He said that preliminary research suggests that rehabilitation for the vestibular system may help people recover from these unusual symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This \"vestibular rehabilitation\" involves graduated exercises focused on coordination and balance. Although vestibular rehabilitation is promising, more research must be done. Today, the mainstay treatment for concussions remains a short period -- days to weeks -- of \"cognitive rest,\" in effect resting the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of rest involves often involves time away from school or work, and other social activities. Although shown to be beneficial, kids must be closely monitored as the components of cognitive rest may also contribute to the development of emotional symptoms later on in recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cognitive rest is an important component of recovery,\" said Dr. Matthew Eisenberg lead researcher in the study. He's an emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital. \"Much like an athlete would avoid jumping on a sprained ankle, there does seem to be a period after which the cost-benefit ratio changes. It is difficult to say when this switch occurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty that many patients with concussions suffer is that unlike ankle injuries there is no cast or crutches to remind others of the injury, which can provoke pressure to return to “normal” in the classroom and athletic field. This social pressure may also contribute to emotional symptoms that develop during recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents, coaches, and others taking care of patients should have patience during their child’s recovery and keep in mind that all concussions are different and requires close monitoring immediately after the injury, as well as later during recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest takeaway is that while your child may be showing some signs of improvement from the physical symptoms of concussion, it is important to watch out for the late-arriving emotional symptoms,” said Dr. Eisenberg, “The child who is isolating him/herself, exhibiting personality changes, altered sleep behavior, or depressed mood may be experiencing very severe post-concussive symptoms even as his or her headache have resolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">Brian Lau is a freelance writer and an orthopedic surgery resident at UCSF medical center. 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Kids who still live under their parents' roofs aren't as free to buy or collect things in the same way as adults who live on their own. But it could also be that hoarding gets worse over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Losses in life like the death of a loved one can exacerbate hoarding, Ivanov says. \"So maybe it takes a little bit of time before life takes its toll on these youngsters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #111111\">Compulsive hoarding is debilitating psychiatric condition. While many people collect things, those with \u003ca style=\"font-style: inherit;color: #4774cc\" href=\"http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/hoarding/Pages/Introduction.aspx#profile\" target=\"_blank\">hoarding disorder\u003c/a> usually accumulate huge quantities of things such as newspapers, household items and clothing. In extreme cases, the piles can result in dangerous or unhygienic living conditions. 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According to the documents, the area that incrementally increases the area to be surveyed will be incrementally increased and homes inhabited by young children and pregnant women will be specially vacuumed or have lead dust sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The Exide plant has been cited repeatedly for leaking lead and arsenic into nearby residential neighborhoods.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Exide Technologies also may remove an undisclosed amount of soil from two yards already identified as hazardous to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the company has received regulatory approval for more than $5 million in improvements to pollution-control measures at its plant in Vernon. That’s on top of $15 million the company has committed to anti-pollution measures since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate press releases regarding the ground contamination and the air-quality protection measures, senior Exide director E.N. “Bud” DeSart is quoted as saying the company is resolved to protect the public health.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some community groups were unconvinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to put lipstick on this pig,” responded Monseigneur John Moretta. He's pastor of Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar, largely Latino community next to Vernon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretta added that he won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soil testing and remediation plan went to the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, which regulates ground contamination. The $5 million anti-pollution plan falls under the authority of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, charged with protecting air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the public interest group Consumer Watchdog questioned this division of authority over what she described as a persistent and unrepentant polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What needs to happen is to regulate in a completely different way, to give companies like that a master permit, coordinated between the air district and the DTSC,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Regulators) need to get together and say, ‘OK, what are we concerned about here and what do we do to make sure it doesn’t happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Tucker said, the company has played different regulatory agencies against each other, avoiding effective controls on its behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Long History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battery recycling plant has operated since December 1981 on\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> an “interim permit.”\u003c/a> Since then, it has never satisfied regulators that it meets the state’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. Exide \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than two miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a neurotoxin that can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Quality Management District disclosed last spring that Exide’s arsenic emissions posed a cancer risk to more than 100,000 people living nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the Department of Toxic Substances Control announced that tests of homes and schools near the plant detected lead levels exceeding 40 milligrams of lead per kilogram of soil. That’s about 40 parts per million, the level at which state guidelines recommend additional testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">warned\u003c/a> residents of Boyle Heights and Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, to keep children away from areas of bare soil and to wash their hands thoroughly, especially when they come inside. Residents should put door mats inside and outside entrances to their homes, only grow produce in raised planter boxes and thoroughly wash any home-gown produce before eating it, the agency warned. It ordered additional testing and strategies to protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expansion of Lead Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first soil tests took samples from 39 homes and two schools within two miles of the plant. Exide’s new plan, submitted Friday, expands soil testing by 1.9 square miles and includes 59 additional properties. At homes where lead has already been found in concentrations exceeding 40 parts per million, and that are inhabited by pregnant women or young children, Exide may cover bare soil or vacuum the ground, according to the most recent proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first round of testing found lead concentrations exceeding the state Department of Public Health’s defined hazard level for bare soils where children play of 400 milligram per kilogram of soil, or approximately 400 parts per million. At those properties, the company plans to remove soil. The plan didn’t specify how much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Exide’s plan to curb air pollution, Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, noted that the company continued to receive citations for violating air quality rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">Those alleged violations\u003c/a> include one this month for failing to report emissions promptly and two in January for temporarily removing part of the roof while work was underway on battery-crushing equipment. That may have released toxic fumes, but Exide failed to notify authorities or warn the public, air district documents claim. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some community groups were unconvinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to put lipstick on this pig,” responded Monseigneur John Moretta. He's pastor of Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar, largely Latino community next to Vernon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moretta added that he won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soil testing and remediation plan went to the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, which regulates ground contamination. The $5 million anti-pollution plan falls under the authority of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, charged with protecting air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the public interest group Consumer Watchdog questioned this division of authority over what she described as a persistent and unrepentant polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What needs to happen is to regulate in a completely different way, to give companies like that a master permit, coordinated between the air district and the DTSC,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Regulators) need to get together and say, ‘OK, what are we concerned about here and what do we do to make sure it doesn’t happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Tucker said, the company has played different regulatory agencies against each other, avoiding effective controls on its behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Long History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battery recycling plant has operated since December 1981 on\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> an “interim permit.”\u003c/a> Since then, it has never satisfied regulators that it meets the state’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. Exide \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than two miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a neurotoxin that can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Quality Management District disclosed last spring that Exide’s arsenic emissions posed a cancer risk to more than 100,000 people living nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the Department of Toxic Substances Control announced that tests of homes and schools near the plant detected lead levels exceeding 40 milligrams of lead per kilogram of soil. That’s about 40 parts per million, the level at which state guidelines recommend additional testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">warned\u003c/a> residents of Boyle Heights and Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, to keep children away from areas of bare soil and to wash their hands thoroughly, especially when they come inside. Residents should put door mats inside and outside entrances to their homes, only grow produce in raised planter boxes and thoroughly wash any home-gown produce before eating it, the agency warned. It ordered additional testing and strategies to protect residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expansion of Lead Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first soil tests took samples from 39 homes and two schools within two miles of the plant. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead1-e1395352488289.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-18237\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/ExideLead1-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Cabrales of Communities for a Better Environment regularly includes the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon in the activist group’s “toxic tour” of pollution sites to the east and south of Los Angeles. (Chris Richard)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Cabrales of Communities for a Better Environment regularly includes the Exide Technologies plant in Vernon in the activist group’s “toxic tour” of pollution sites to the east and south of Los Angeles. (Chris Richard)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most 6-year-olds, Claudia Gomez’s son, Stanley, loves to play in the dirt, and he doesn’t much like washing his hands. But these days more than ever, Gomez is a stickler for cleanliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday evening, she spotted the grime as Stanley raced past her on his way to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Exide plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I already washed my hands!” Stanley complained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest didn’t work. Gomez hauled Stanley to the sink and started scrubbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is being so careful because the state Department of Toxic Substances Control has warned parents not to let their children play in the dirt. The department is urging frequent hand-washing as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Community_Flier_031014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">precaution against lead poisoning\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in Gomez’s Boyle Heights neighborhood and in Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">got new warnings\u003c/a> earlier this month that a battery recycling plant may have contaminated their houses and yards with lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators believe the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead poisoning can attack every organ in the body. In children, it can cause brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide crushes and melts about 25,000 car batteries a day. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than 2 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Department of Toxic Substances Control ordered soil testing at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/04/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles/\" target=\"_blank\">39 houses and two schools\u003c/a> near the Exide plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials announced recently that all \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_02_18_Exide_Offsite_Soil_Sampling_Rpt.pdf\">the samples exceeded 80 parts per million\u003c/a>, the level at which the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recommends additional evaluation. The samples at one home topped 580 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, deputy director at the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says eventually, Exide might be ordered to cover the contaminated areas with mulch or sod, or possibly haul away some dirt. But first, Johnson says regulators need to map the poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know (what the strategy will be) yet, because we don’t know how extensive these concentrations are. So, we don’t feel that it’s an emergency, but it does concern us significantly and that’s why we have them moving quickly,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide has until today to come up with that broader testing plan -- and a strategy to protect people known to have been exposed to lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Neighbors Say State Action is Too Little, Too Late\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some neighborhood residents are losing faith in a regulatory response they feel is too little, too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a neighborhood playground, Alejandro Ramirez wondered how he’s supposed to keep his nephew safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell him, 'Don’t grab this, don’t grab that,' because he’s a little boy, and what he wants is to experiment and to play in the dirt, or in games,” Ramirez said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the nonprofit activist group Consumer Watchdog called the request for additional testing “totally passing the buck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m concerned about is chronic exposure to lead. Those kids breathe the air. Those adults breathe the air. Lead is a neurotoxin. This has been going on now for years,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140727874&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Exide says it now meets clean air standards. Plant Manager John Hogarth called the company “part of the green economy.” Exide already helps the environment by recycling some 8 million car batteries a year, Hogarth said, adding that otherwise the batteries would end up in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can say to the community is that we are working very closely with the agencies that regulate us for health and environmental purposes, and we are committed to meet those requirements, whatever they are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Exide supports its community by providing more than 100 union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first priority is their health and hygiene and also the health and, you know, being a good steward of the environment for the communities around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State records tell a different story. The plant has operated under an\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> interim permit since December 1981\u003c/a>. In all that time, Exide hasn’t satisfied regulators that it has fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. In fact, regulators twice issued deficiency notices that could have allowed the state to close the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state allowed it to stay open\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says it wasn’t always clear how lead smelters like Exide fit into the regulatory structure. Also, the plant filed several different permit applications. And time dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not have that patience any longer,\" Johnson said. \"We are directing Exide to do the work that should have been done years ago and to do it quickly, and we are moving forward down that path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Johnson held a community meeting at a church about 2 miles from Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Los Angeles resident Rafael Yanez, an environmental engineer, pointed out that so far, state regulators have sampled the middle of people’s yards, away from places where rain might concentrate lead, like under rain spouts. State officials are trying to get the average concentrations at first, not the peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yanez said many families in the neighborhood plant kitchen gardens near downspouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since this is a Latin community, you would see chiles, things like yerba buena or other medicinal herbs that they’ll boil as teas to give to their children that are colicky,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yanez thinks the lead concentrations in those gardens could be up to six times higher. He urged state regulators to require testing in other places that might have accumulated lead over the years, such as storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said that regulators put Exide on a tight schedule to come up with the protection and testing plan and he promised rapid action. Meanwhile, the county Department of Public Health will start offering free blood tests for people who want to be screened for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberto Cabrales of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a> hopes regulators do crack down. He regularly swings by Exide on the organization’s “toxic tour” of pollution hot spots to the east and south of Los Angeles. “But it’s not the only one,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Los Angeles County supervisors voted to set up a task force to identify chronic polluters like Exide and get them cleaned up or closed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Gomez, the mom who can’t stop scrubbing her son’s hands, is also growing weary of a struggle that seems to bring so little result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, we should fight it, and they need to close that thing down and put it somewhere else. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is being so careful because the state Department of Toxic Substances Control has warned parents not to let their children play in the dirt. The department is urging frequent hand-washing as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/Community_Flier_031014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">precaution against lead poisoning\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in Gomez’s Boyle Heights neighborhood and in Maywood, just east of downtown Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/03/11/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-soil-near-l-a-battery-recycling-plant/\" target=\"_blank\">got new warnings\u003c/a> earlier this month that a battery recycling plant may have contaminated their houses and yards with lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators believe the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant may have showered its neighbors with lead dust for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead poisoning can attack every organ in the body. In children, it can cause brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide crushes and melts about 25,000 car batteries a day. The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/prdas/AB2588/Exide/Exide.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been cited repeatedly for letting lead and arsenic leak\u003c/a> into residential neighborhoods less than 2 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Department of Toxic Substances Control ordered soil testing at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/09/04/neighbors-skeptical-battery-recycler-to-test-soil-for-dangerous-metals-exide-arsenic-los-angeles/\" target=\"_blank\">39 houses and two schools\u003c/a> near the Exide plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials announced recently that all \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/upload/2014_02_18_Exide_Offsite_Soil_Sampling_Rpt.pdf\">the samples exceeded 80 parts per million\u003c/a>, the level at which the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recommends additional evaluation. The samples at one home topped 580 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, deputy director at the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says eventually, Exide might be ordered to cover the contaminated areas with mulch or sod, or possibly haul away some dirt. But first, Johnson says regulators need to map the poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know (what the strategy will be) yet, because we don’t know how extensive these concentrations are. So, we don’t feel that it’s an emergency, but it does concern us significantly and that’s why we have them moving quickly,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide has until today to come up with that broader testing plan -- and a strategy to protect people known to have been exposed to lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Neighbors Say State Action is Too Little, Too Late\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some neighborhood residents are losing faith in a regulatory response they feel is too little, too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a neighborhood playground, Alejandro Ramirez wondered how he’s supposed to keep his nephew safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell him, 'Don’t grab this, don’t grab that,' because he’s a little boy, and what he wants is to experiment and to play in the dirt, or in games,” Ramirez said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liza Tucker of the nonprofit activist group Consumer Watchdog called the request for additional testing “totally passing the buck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m concerned about is chronic exposure to lead. Those kids breathe the air. Those adults breathe the air. Lead is a neurotoxin. This has been going on now for years,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140727874&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Exide says it now meets clean air standards. Plant Manager John Hogarth called the company “part of the green economy.” Exide already helps the environment by recycling some 8 million car batteries a year, Hogarth said, adding that otherwise the batteries would end up in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can say to the community is that we are working very closely with the agencies that regulate us for health and environmental purposes, and we are committed to meet those requirements, whatever they are,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Exide supports its community by providing more than 100 union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first priority is their health and hygiene and also the health and, you know, being a good steward of the environment for the communities around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of Violations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State records tell a different story. The plant has operated under an\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report.asp?global_id=80001733\" target=\"_blank\"> interim permit since December 1981\u003c/a>. In all that time, Exide hasn’t satisfied regulators that it has fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites. In fact, regulators twice issued deficiency notices that could have allowed the state to close the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state allowed it to stay open\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Johnson, of the Department of Toxic Substances Control, says it wasn’t always clear how lead smelters like Exide fit into the regulatory structure. Also, the plant filed several different permit applications. And time dragged on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not have that patience any longer,\" Johnson said. \"We are directing Exide to do the work that should have been done years ago and to do it quickly, and we are moving forward down that path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Johnson held a community meeting at a church about 2 miles from Exide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Los Angeles resident Rafael Yanez, an environmental engineer, pointed out that so far, state regulators have sampled the middle of people’s yards, away from places where rain might concentrate lead, like under rain spouts. State officials are trying to get the average concentrations at first, not the peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yanez said many families in the neighborhood plant kitchen gardens near downspouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since this is a Latin community, you would see chiles, things like yerba buena or other medicinal herbs that they’ll boil as teas to give to their children that are colicky,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yanez thinks the lead concentrations in those gardens could be up to six times higher. He urged state regulators to require testing in other places that might have accumulated lead over the years, such as storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said that regulators put Exide on a tight schedule to come up with the protection and testing plan and he promised rapid action. Meanwhile, the county Department of Public Health will start offering free blood tests for people who want to be screened for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberto Cabrales of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a> hopes regulators do crack down. He regularly swings by Exide on the organization’s “toxic tour” of pollution hot spots to the east and south of Los Angeles. “But it’s not the only one,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Los Angeles County supervisors voted to set up a task force to identify chronic polluters like Exide and get them cleaned up or closed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Gomez, the mom who can’t stop scrubbing her son’s hands, is also growing weary of a struggle that seems to bring so little result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, we should fight it, and they need to close that thing down and put it somewhere else. 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