Editorial: California needs more than just money to stop bungling the Exide cleanup (via latimesopinion )
that still threatens thousands of residents, especially children, who are most harmed by the brain-damaging metal.
revealed that dozens of homes that were supposedly cleaned were later found to have lead concentrations above health standards; contractors failed to meet state soil-removal guidelines at more than 500 of 3,370 cleaned properties. “Our communities have been fighting Exide for 30 years and cleaning up contaminated parkways has been part of our demands since the state confirmed our homes are contaminated almost a decade ago,” Lopez said.
The funding proposal comes after state Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo and half a dozen other legislators wrote the department requesting to use fees the state already collects on lead-acid car batteries like the ones melted down for decades at the Exide plant to pay for the parkway cleanup.
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