Advocates: Exide cleanup plan leaves many to ‘fend for ourselves’

VLF Public Interest Fellow Jaimini Parekh comments on unsafe levels of lead exposure:

“Toxic Substances Control’s strategy “unfortunately means that many children will continue to play in backyard soils containing unsafe levels of lead – a highly poisonous neurotoxin,” says Jaimini Parekh, an attorney for Communities for a Better Environment. “[Toxic Substances Control] fell asleep at the wheel, and failed to regulate this bad actor, and now the children of southeast Los Angeles are paying the price.”