LA Times and Democrats kill Exide Batteries (Los Angeles, East Los Angeles: 2013, how much)

[V8 Vega]

In Vernon, all those jobs and tax gone forever, thanks Democrats.

[Dangerous-Boy]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

In Vernon, all those jobs and tax gone forever, thanks Democrats.

I guess you could move to Texas

[Bunjee]

This was a federal case of illegal dumping of hazardous waste. What are you talking about?

[NIMBYS IN SPACE]

How tragic, they shut down the state's most egregious cancer-producer, which flouted the law for years and spewed illegal and highly toxic levels of arsenic into the county's poorest and most disenfranchised sections, sickening thousands. What a pity:

"AQMD said Exide’s Vernon plant "posed a higher cancer risk to more people than any of more than 450 facilities the agency has regulated in Southern California in the last 25 years."

AQMD found that increased arsenic emissions from Exide is potentially impacting as many as 110,000 residents of Vernon, Maywood, Huntington Park, Commerce, Boyle Heights, and unincorporated East Los Angeles."

Local Battery Recycler Poses Highest Cancer Risk In Southern California: LAist

Well, Texas's gain I guess...

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by NIMBYS IN SPACE

How tragic, they shut down the state's most egregious cancer-producer, which flouted the law for years and spewed illegal and highly toxic levels of arsenic into the county's poorest and most disenfranchised sections, sickening thousands. What a pity:

"AQMD said Exide’s Vernon plant "posed a higher cancer risk to more people than any of more than 450 facilities the agency has regulated in Southern California in the last 25 years."

AQMD found that increased arsenic emissions from Exide is potentially impacting as many as 110,000 residents of Vernon, Maywood, Huntington Park, Commerce, Boyle Heights, and unincorporated East Los Angeles."

Local Battery Recycler Poses Highest Cancer Risk In Southern California: LAist

Well, Texas's gain I guess...

Exactly. I wonder how V8 Vega would have loved this plant if it was in Sylmar?

[bpeeps]

I'm holding out for the "Thanks Obama" comment.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Why can they not set up shop way out in a desert community? Why do I keep hearing in the news about factories adjacent to residential neighborhoods spewing more pollution than a fleet of 80's diesel Mercedes'?

[Beardown91737]

Originally Posted by Dangerous-Boy

I guess you could move to Texas

The Frisco plant closed in 2012. There is a map of soil penetration on friscounleaded.com

[quote=NIMBYS IN SPACE;38802167]How tragic, they shut down the state's most egregious cancer-producer, which flouted the law for years and spewed illegal and highly toxic levels of arsenic into the county's poorest and most disenfranchised sections, sickening thousands. What a pity:

"AQMD said Exide’s Vernon plant "posed a higher cancer risk to more people than any of more than 450 facilities the agency has regulated in Southern California in the last 25 years."

AQMD found that increased arsenic emissions from Exide is potentially impacting as many as 110,000 residents of Vernon, Maywood, Huntington Park, Commerce, Boyle Heights, and unincorporated East Los Angeles."
and I worked in Commerce for a couple years. Commerce was one of the two hot spots for airborne lead at the time.

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

Why can they not set up shop way out in a desert community? Why do I keep hearing in the news about factories adjacent to residential neighborhoods spewing more pollution than a fleet of 80's diesel Mercedes'?

You probably mean "a safe distance from a desert community".

problem is in Frisco TX, the plant was operating for 50 years. It was a remote prarie then and sparsely populated. People moved into the area anyway, probably because we knew very little about how much lead was getting into the soil. Now they continue moving in. Unlike Vernon, Frisco got richer when people moved in, and both groups disenfranchised themselves equally by moving into documented lead fallout areas.

[nslander]

If I had any lingering doubts V8 was a sock-troll, this kills it. Nobody is that thick.

[V8 Vega]

Sundays LA Times had a article about Exide on 3 pages, one was a full page. Daily News nothing. The enviroment is Democrats religion. The Times never said how many people worked there but it was on 15 acres so thats pretty big, all those jobs are gone foreaver because of the Democrat party.