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    California Sen. Alex Padilla urges Superfund status for Exide cleanup

    by Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times Jun 10, 2023 4 minutes
    A house, bottom center, in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood is cleaned of lead contamination from the shuttered Exide plant on Friday, June 9, 2023. The house is about a mile northwest of the former plant. Politicians want the Environmental Protection Agency to designate the cleanup sites a Superfund site to allow access to federal funds.

    LOS ANGELES — With a torrent of criticism swirling around California’s largest environmental cleanup, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla Friday visited Boyle Heights and renewed his call for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to aid state efforts in removing lead contamination from neighborhoods surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant in Southeast Los Angeles County.

    Padilla, D-Calif., along with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., sent a letter to EPA administrator Michael Regan in February asking him to expedite California’s request to designate areas near the former Exide plant as a Superfund site, a classification typically reserved for some of the nation’s most contaminated places. The designation, Padilla said, would bring in federal funds and likely expedite the pace

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