Erin Brockovich
Date Submitted: 08/27/2004 04:54:26
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 3 pages (690 words)
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 3 pages (690 words)
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) was in trouble. Serious trouble. Four decades after the world's largest utility started dumping 370 million gallons of cancer-causing chemicals into unlined ponds in Hinkley, California, the company's actions had finally been uncovered. Uncovered by Erin Brockovich (a formerly unemployed, single mother of three working in a California law firm) who wanted to know what medical records had to do with a real estate file. What she found out led to …
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…on a huge case requiring tons of work. They took on the biggest publicly owned utility in the world and scared them so bad the company had no choice but to write the big check. Someone had to get the case started. Someone had actually DO an investigation. Someone had to talk to the clients and gather enough information to make to go against the big company. That someone in this case was Erin Brockovich.
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