California taxpayers were left responsible for a dangerously contaminated plant outside Los Angeles after a federal judge turned down an emergency bid by state environmental regulators to block Exide Technologies LLC from exiting bankruptcy.
Thursday’s court ruling rejected a last-ditch effort from California, which has been hammering Exide for years over a polluted battery-recycling facility in Vernon, near Los Angeles, that authorities view as a risk to the surrounding community. Once a cheap source of lead for Exide’s…
