Public meeting in the Palm Beach County Conference Center regarding the high cancer levels at The Acreage in Loxahatchee, Florida
Oct. 8, 2009

It's hard to go after an enemy you can't "grasp." People we can grasp. We know people. We ARE people. So we know how we tick, and how we can be opposed. But against some enemies, we are fighting in the dark, encumbered by the blinding ignorance of exactly how to handle the enemy. That's what it seems like is going on in the gulf. Our enemy is the spreading oil, and our own ignorance of how to handle it. And some of our solutions are just making the problem worse.

Photo: Taken by independent consultant, Bob Bowcock, working with Erin the day the photo was taken.

I just spent four days in Louisiana spending time with the fisherman of the area, and meeting business owners along the way. It will take me days to process everything I heard and saw because the magnitude of this is overwhelming.
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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich will be at Wake Forest University on June 29 to speak about her opposition to Alcoa Inc.'s relicensing efforts.

Riverkeeper Dean Naujoks has been critical of Alcoa's relicensing bid. Alcoa wants to renew its 50-year license with the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee to operate four dams on the Yadkin. Brockovich is working on a class-action lawsuit involving Alcoa's Australian operations

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Yadkin Riverkeeper® Announces Erin Brockovich Event

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2010-05-17 18:30:45 - Yadkin Riverkeeper® is bringing International environmental activist, Erin Brockovich, to Winston-Salem on Tuesday, June 29.

Erin Brockovich, Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy And Allison Chin Join With National Environmental Activists At The Hangout

Leading environmental activists band together at The Hangout Beach Music and Arts Festival (May 14th - 16th) in Gulf Shores, Ala to raise awareness for the inhabitants and habitats affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast. Preservation Hall Jazz Band to host "Concerts for the Coast" and perform at The Hangout.

Gulf Shores, AL (PRWEB) May 12, 2010 -- The Hangout Beach Music and Arts Festival has announced that environmental activists Erin Brockovich, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy and Sierra Club Board President Allison Chin will participate in a public panel discussion and press conferences at the festival on Saturday, May 15 at 3pm and Sunday, May 16 at 2:30pm.

Business Wire Press Release:

Lawyers and noted advocate fight for fishermen, businesses and property owners

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. (www.weitzlux.com) has joined together with environmental advocate Erin Brockovich to help those impacted by the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which is of such magnitude it could become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in decades. In the coming days, Brockovich will be traveling to the Gulf with our attorneys, including the States of Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, to meet with the people impacted by the spill and to discuss with them how they have been affected and will be impacted in the future.

“People want to know, ‘What will happen to the ecosystem, the fish and wildlife? Who can help local commercial fishermen, property owners whose land has been ruined, and families worried about the spill’s impact on their food and health?’”

At the Eagle Hangar at the Experimental Aircraft Association Museum, a crowd of 750 women from the Oshkosh Area Community's Foundation's Women's Fund which funds women in need in Wisconsin (31 % of Wisconsin women are in poverty) listened to Erin Brockovich over their luncheon plates.

ARTICLE: http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20100430/OSH0101/4300413/1987/OSHnews/Erin-Brockovich-speaks-at-women-s-luncheon

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although the photo is Julia Roberts...again.

Developers were so resourceful in the sixties--when they wanted to build single family houses on a 50 acre tract formerly used as an oil tank farm, they just slapped a cute name like Carousel on it and watched the buyers roll in. Flash forward, and about 285 homeowners in the Carson neighborhood of Carousel are in the middle of a lawsuit against Shell Oil, developer Barclay Hollander Corporation (now owned by Dole Foods), and others, following the discovery of scary amounts of methane and the carcinogen benzene in the land. Activist Erin Brockovich brought in her go-to law firm Girardi and Keese to represent the homeowners.

Acreage homeowners and environmental activists Jennifer and Gregg Dunsford move out of their West Palm Beach dream home one and a half months after their community is declared a pediatric cancer cluster by officials of the Florida Dept. of Health.

Click to visit The Acreage Cancer Study Website

These things are always taken out of context. Someone pointed out this article to me: Erin Brockovich says film was a curse.

I have gotten a LOT of mileage in speeches and in media events over the inconvenience of being recognized, for example in the bathroom, or not being recognized at the checkout counter (and unable to cash my own checks because I'm not Julia Roberts!!). And what In Touch Magazine said is true, I have gotten " mean comments about my looks, my bustier and my foul language. People would send rude letters.."

By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Who doesn’t know Erin Brockovich? Or at least we all think we know her, through the role that Julia Roberts played in the 2000 movie that bears her name. We remember Brockovich, the single mother and legal clerk who was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California. The case, which led to one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history, alleged contamination of drinking water with hexavalent chromium in the California town of Hinkley.

Communities throughout Australia, including some near Sydney, Melbourne and in Queensland, are already experiencing environmental problems with pesticides and Chromium VI, according to Erin Brockovich. Brockovich is working with Australian communities, providing advice on litigation, and supporting the community, including voicing her support for Terri and Bindi Irwin's fight to protect the 135,000 Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, a conservation area in Cape York Peninsula currently threatened by strip mining. Over 207,000 people have signed the " Save Steve's Place" petition.

You can sign the petition here:

Weitz & Luxenberg will Host a Special Community Meeting in Paw Paw, Mich. for Those Affected by Groundwater Contamination from Coca-Cola Plant

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.:

WHO: Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.

WHAT: Paw Paw, Mich. residents are invited to attend a special community meeting with lawyers from Weitz & Luxenberg.

WHEN: Tuesday, August 25 at 7 p.m.

WHERE: Paw Paw High School, 30609 E. Red Arrow Hwy., Paw Paw, MI 49079-8699

Attorneys from Weitz & Luxenberg (www.weitzlux.com) — a law firm long recognized in the legal community for pursuing legal claims on behalf of communities and individuals harmed by toxic pollution — will be on hand with local Michigan counsel to discuss the soil contamination problem in Paw Paw, Mich., and to advise residents about their legal options.

Erin talks to Midland about Chromium in the water
The original plume was discovered in February of 2005. Brockovich's team is currently representing about 40 individuals.

Private well water found contaminated with HVC

Read about Erin's fight against BirdsEye

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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich will announce on April 22 the results of her investigation into the brain tumor clusters in Cameron.

Erin Brockovich addressed the media in Lenoir City January 8, 2009, prior to visiting the site of the TVA coal ash spill site to speak to residents who have been affected by the disaster.

Test results from water sampling conducted by the city on Jan. 12, showed that the system violated standards for haloacetic acids, which are a byproduct of the chlorination process used to disinfect drinking water.

Cameron Environmental Investigation

In May 2008, in response to high community concern about the city’s drinking water as a possible cause of brain tumors, the Department of Natural Resources tested the public drinking water in Cameron. No contaminants that would pose a public health threat were found. Like all public water systems in Missouri, Cameron’s public water system is routinely tested to ensure the water is safe for the public to drink. Over many years of testing and evaluation, Cameron’s public water has repeatedly been found to be clean and safe for public consumption.

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