Erin Brockovich Conservation

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Erin Brockovich In the movie Erin Brockovich, played by Julia Roberts, it starts out with a woman, Erin, trying to get a job at an office with absolutely no work experience at all for the job she is being interviewed for. As Erin is driving away in her “junky” car, she was side-swiped by a doctor who blew through a stoplight. Upon meeting with her attorney Ed (Edward) Masry, played by Albert Finney, she was in hopes of winning her case considering she is an unemployed, single mother with 3 children to support. After losing her personal injury lawsuit with the doctor that hit her, Erin strolls into her attorney’s, Ed’s, office asking/begging him for a job for reparation for him losing her case. Ed graciously, but not happily, gives Erin a job working as a file clerk in his office. While working one day, Erin runs across some files on a “pro bono” (free) case containing medical records in real-estate files and a company named PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) offering to buy Donna Jensen’s home in Hinkley, CA. Erin, confused by this, takes it to Ed who just blows her off. After Erin begins to dig deeper into the specifics of the case, she is absolutely convinced that the facts in this case do not add up and do not make any sense. After arguing and pleading with Ed, Erin convinces him to let her do more research on her hunch. Erin goes to Hinkley, CA where she talks with Donna Jensen and her family, who is very sick along with her young daughter, and discovers that there are many more Hinkley residents who have several different, but similar illnesses as the Jensen family. After Erin takes samples of the water outside of the PG&E plant (and flirtatious trips to the local water department for copies of files), Erin discovers a well-organized cover-up of an industrial poisoning (hexavalent chromium) by PG&E in the town of Hinkley’s water supply. This, of course,

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