MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Federal regulators say part of the central Indiana city of Muncie is one of 16 sites across the nation that violate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new air quality standards for lead.
EPA Region 5 environmental engineer Andy Chang said Tuesday that battery recycling company Exide Technologies has been found to be the source of the heavy metal, which can lower the intelligence of children exposed to it. Exide has operations on Muncie's southwest side.
The new EPA standards limit lead levels to 0.15 micrograms per cubic meter of air. Chang says levels as high as 2.14 micrograms per cubic meter were recorded in the Muncie area between 2007 and 2009.
Indiana will have 18 months starting in January to draft a plan with the company to reduce the emissions.
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