valve regulated lead acid battery Air quality district sues battery recycler Exide for $40 million
Aviation District officials filed a lawsuit Thursday demanding Vernon battery recyclers pay up to $40 million, accusing them of putting too much lead and arsenic at risk to their health. South Coast Air Quality Management District sued Exide Technologies in the Los Angeles County High Court, accusing the company-One of the world's largest lead producers and recyclersAcid Battery-Let thousands of people get cancer. Resulting in the production of chemicals, failure to take timely action to solve the problem of pollution control systems. "There is a steady stream of operational problems with Exide, resulting in excess toxic emissions," said Barry Wallerstein, an air zone executive officer . ". "These toxic emissions have put more than 100,000 residents at an unacceptable risk of cancer, so we are looking to take back significant penalties from them. Exide officials could not be reached for comment. State Sen. Kevin De LeonLos Angeles) appreciates the move on behalf of many residents in the affected areas. "Human beings are facing terrible cancer --"The poison that caused Exide," he said in a statement . ". "It's time to clean up the company. "In the efforts of the air zone to control Exide emissions, this lawsuit opens up another front, since the health risk assessment, the plant has become the focus of community anger for more than 110,000 people living in Boyle Heights to Huntington Park. The air zone also requested its hearing committee to suspend the operation of the plant until Exide was able to improve its air pollution control system. The petition is under review. Last week, the air district management committee passed the country's toughest regulations to limit lead and arsenic emissions. Acid battery factoryExide operates one of the two leadsAcid battery factory west of Rocky Mountains. The factory opened in the 1920 s, smelting about 25,000 batteries a day. Also: it is reported that three teenagers have confessed to sexually assaulting Audry portvitfield in the northeast of Los Angeles. A. With the heat wave continuing to sweep across Jessica, Southern California, the evacuation peak reached 90. @ Latimes garrison.