Battery recycler Exide Technologies will permanently close its Vernon plant and avoid criminal charges under an agreement between the company and the U.S. attorney's office reached Wednesday night.

Exide Technologies has been allowed to abandon its former battery-recycling plant in Vernon, leaving the state -- and taxpayers -- on the hook to pay for continued environmental cleanup of the site.

As many as 10,000 properties within 1.7 miles of a shuttered battery recycling plant may have been contaminated. Check your property's cleanup status.

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FRISCO -- Thousands of battery chips found buried on Exide land have raised more concerns for Frisco officials who agreed to buy much of the property once it's cleaned up. The chips come from the ...

The battery recycling plant has sat idle for a year due to major legal and environmental problems. The State Department of Toxic Substances Control found that Exide had been releasing cancer ...

A federal judge approved a revised bankruptcy loan for Exide Technologies Inc., but granted junior creditors the right to float their own Chapter 11 emergence plan for the distressed battery maker.

Salvador Andrade worked in the Exide facility for 28 years. He remembers how black smoke from the plant, a byproduct of burning as many as 40,000 used batteries a day, would cling to his clothes.

Battery maker Exide Technologies has returned to bankruptcy protection for a third and likely final time, with bondholders poised to take over its European and Asia-Pacific operations. Loaded down ...