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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

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

Exide Plant In Frisco Will Likely Close This Year

CBS 11 News has learned that the controversial Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Frisco will close by the end of the year, in a tentative deal reached with the city.

2012/05/31

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

Frisco Council Rejects Exide Plant Cleanup Plan

More than 100 employees of the embattled Exide battery recycling plant packed Frisco City Hall Tuesday night in an attempt to save their jobs.

2012/01/17

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

Plan To Clean Frisco Plant Fails To Meet EPA Standards

Exide Technologies reached an agreement with the TCEQ to reduce lead levels. But the EPA has found that plan to be unacceptable.

2011/09/21

State Agency Cites Frisco Battery Plant For Violations

Investigators revealed numerous violations against Exide Technologies in a report Tuesday, alleging the battery recycling plant exhibited lapses in employee training and did not properly discharge of hazardous waste.

2011/09/13