[CPEO-BIF] "Governor Brown Proposes $176.6 Million Exide Cleanup Plan, " Vernon, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NEWS RELEASE:
Office of California Governor Edmund G. Brown
February 17, 2016	

Governor Brown Proposes $176.6 Million Exide Cleanup Plan

SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today proposed a $176.6 million spending plan to fund expedited and expanded testing and cleanup of residential properties, schools, daycare centers and parks around the former Exide Technologies facility in Vernon, California.
 
“This Exide battery recycling facility has been a problem for a very long time,” said Governor Brown. “With this funding plan, we’re opening a new chapter that will help protect the community and hold Exide responsible.”

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For the entire release, see
http://users.focalbeam.com/fs/distribution:wl/ze7pzanwmhlzgt/13tdh1qp1ta1fmh/daid/.preview

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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