Wednesday, December 15, 2010

[Never mind]: "Erin Brockovich" Town Shows No Cancer Cluster - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Hinkley, California, the town made famous in the Oscar-winning Julia Roberts movie Erin Brockovich, does not show any evidence of an increased rate of cancers.

Pacific Gas and Electric, which released a toxic plume of hexavalent chromium 6 from a Hinkley-based natural gas pipeline station, paid a record $333 million to settle a class-action suit in 1996. But the California Cancer Registry has now completed three studies that show cancer rates remained normal in from 1988 to 2008.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That slimy lawyer and the firm she worked for should return the money