Seven months after a huge fire at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants, in Moss Landing, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that crews will begin removing more than 50,000 burned batteries in September at the site and that the work will take more than a year to complete.

Kazami Brockman, a civil engineer and on-scene coordinator for the EPA, said during a weekly Monterey County news briefing that the amount of construction equipment at the damaged power plant is already increasing.

Crews have begun demolishing parts of the concrete building that was severely damaged during the Jan. 16 fire, he said. The batteries will be taken to hazardous waste disposal facilities outside California and many of their components will be recycled, EPA officials confi

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