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Company: Exide Technologies
Current Parent Company: Exide Technologies
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Penalty: $50,000,000
Year: 2015
Date: March 12, 2015
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: The United States and Exide Technologies reached an agreement that called for the battery manufacturing company to immediately and forever close a battery recycling facility in Vernon and to pay $50 million to clean-up the site and surrounding neighborhoods, which had been affected by environmental toxins for close to a century.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Central District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Prosecution Agreement: non-prosecution agreement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Georgia
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: miscellaneous energy products and systems
Specific Industry of Current Parent: batteries
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