{"id":87347,"date":"2019-05-06T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=87347"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:41:12","slug":"l-a-county-reaches-1-8m-settlement-with-trucking-firm-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/05\/06\/l-a-county-reaches-1-8m-settlement-with-trucking-firm-over\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County reaches $1.8M settlement with trucking firm over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-78661\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gavel-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gavel-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Gavel.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LOS ANGELES &#8211; An Alabama-based trucking company will pay Los Angeles County $1.82 million to resolve allegations it illegally trucked more than 128,000 pounds of lead-contaminated material from a former battery- recycling plant in Vernon to Kern County, county officials said.<\/p>\n<p>County officials contend in a lawsuit that <strong>Wiley Sanders Truck Lines<\/strong> violated state hazardous-waste-handling regulations for years by hauling the contaminated plastic battery chips from the former Exide recycling plant to a facility in Bakersfield. The lawsuit contends the company failed to handle the material as hazardous waste.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with Wiley Sanders could not be reached for immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the county, the company will pay $1.82 million to the county Department of Public health&#8217;s Environmental Response and Assessment Fund, which provides public-health outreach and programs in areas affected by contamination from the former Exide plant. The company will also pay $565,000 in civil penalties, according to the county.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For decades, hard-working families were unaware that trucks leaving Exide&#8217;s facility illegally carried and leaked hazardous wastes into the community and endangered the health and safety of children and others,&#8221; County Supervisor Hilda Solis said. &#8220;It is unacceptable and a human rights violation that unsuspecting children and families at nearby schoolyards and parks were potentially exposed to these hazardous materials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Exide battery recycling plant was operated for decades without a valid state permit and permanently shut down in 2015 after continuing to fail to meet environmental standards for emissions of lead and arsenic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; An Alabama-based trucking company will pay Los Angeles County $1.82 million to resolve allegations it illegally trucked more than 128,000 pounds of lead-contaminated material from a former battery- recycling plant in Vernon to Kern County, county officials said. County officials contend in a lawsuit that Wiley Sanders Truck Lines violated state hazardous-waste-handling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":78661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1496,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}