Erin Brockovich movie

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

E. Pattee June 22, 1960 in Lawrence, Kansas) is a legal clerk who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the $28 billion Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), of California in 1993. Since the release of the movie that shares her story and name, she has hosted Challenge America with Erin Brockovich on ABC and Final Justice on Lifetime.

She is currently president of Brockovich Research & Consulting, a consulting firm.Pacific Gas LitigationThe case alleged contamination of drinking water with hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium (VI), in the southern California town of Hinkley. At the center of the case is a facility called the Hinkley Compressor Station, part of a natural gas pipeline connecting to the San Francisco Bay Area and constructed in 1952. The case was settled in 1996 for $333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct action lawsuit in U.S. history.Brockovichs work was and remains controversial. Chromium (VI) is known to be toxic and carcinogenic,David Blowes, "Tracking Hexavalent Cr in Groundwater," Science 295: 2024 - 25 (Mar. 15, 2002).

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Erin Brockovich Cast

• Albert Finney
• Conchata Ferrell
• David Brisbin
• Dawn Didawick
• Emily Marks
• Erin Brockovich-Ellis
• Gemmenne de la Peña
• George Rocky Sullivan
• Irene Olga López
• Jack Gill
• Julie Marks
• Pat Skipper
• Scotty Leavenworth
• Valente Rodriguez