Editorial: Why do state regulators keep failing residents in Exide lead cleanup?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has been largely absent, should also get involved and designate the Exide cleanup zone a Superfund site, which would allow for additional federal dollars for remediation.
39% : The facility shut down permanently in 2015 under the threat of federal criminal prosecution.
37% : For decades residents have paid the price of lax government oversight of the Vernon battery recycler, and more recently, the state's inability to swiftly and properly clean up the toxic mess it left behind.
36% : The Times revealed, among other problems, that contractors violated environmental rules, allowed toxic dust emissions to drift into neighboring yards and stored contaminated soil on the same block as a preschool without proper signage to warn the public.

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