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Frisco Residents Demand Exide Clean Up Former Plant Site

About 50 Frisco homeowners showed up for a heated meeting Wednesday night to discuss how the site of a former battery recycling plant will be cleaned up and who will oversee it.

CBS 11–2013/02/06

Frisco’s Exide Plant Set To Officially Close

It may be quiet now at Frisco’s Exide Technologies battery recycling plant, but Friday night, the silence will give way to celebration.

2012/11/29

Exide Plant In Frisco To Shut Down, Layoff Employees

Exide says it has notified 120 employees at its battery recycling plant in Frisco that they will be laid off on November 30.

CBS 11–2012/09/24

Steam rolls out of a factory's smokestack. (credit: J.D. Pooley/Getty Images)

Frisco Families Vow To Sue Battery Recycling Plant Exide

Two Frisco mothers entered the U.S. Post Office this morning with a warning to executives of Exide Technologies. They plan to file a lawsuit.

2012/07/16

Frisco Residents To File Exide Cleanup Lawsuit

A group of Frisco residents are angry and say they intend to file a lawsuit centering around contamination caused by the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant.

CBS 11–2012/07/16

Frisco Council OK’s Deal That Will Shutter Exide Plant

The Frisco City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve a deal that will shut down the controversial Exide Technologies battery recycling plant.

2012/06/04

Frisco Lead Smelter Gets More Time To Cut Emissions

Opponents of Exide’s plant had hoped pressure to meet air quality standards by November would force it to close.

2012/05/14

Stacks emit factory smoke into the air. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Frisco Residents Receive Direct Mailer Against Exide Plant

A new study suggested lead contamination from a battery recycling plant in Frisco could be much more widespread than previously thought.

2012/04/19

Lead Emissions Fight In Frisco Resumes Tuesday

Frisco city staffers are recommending the planning and zoning commission deny two plans for Exide’s battery recycling plant.

2012/02/13

Frisco Zoning Commission Denies Exide Request

The fight between a Frisco company and the city has come down to health, the environment and jobs.

2011/12/27

Frisco Residents Continue To Protest Battery Recycling Plant Exide

Residents who arrived to protest battery-recycling plant Exide Technologies Monday don’t just want clean air; they want the reported root of the problem to go away.

2011/10/24

Frisco Residents ‘Want The Lead Out’

For years, some Frisco residents have been concerned about the Exide battery recycling plant in town. Now, a citizens group is ready for the city to close the plant.

2011/10/05