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

Current News about Erin
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

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:

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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There's another danger on the horizon. It's not entirely unique. Vaccines in the past have caused an uproar because their administration has been connected with varying problems such as autism. So you see, it's not that unusual for a vaccine to be known as a "loaded gun." What is this latest "loaded gun?" It's Gardasil.

What is a "loaded gun" anyway? The expression implies something that is a weapon, armed, ready to go off. But what makes the expression is the inference that a loaded gun is a weapon that could go off at any time, not necessarily aimed at the place where it should be aimed, but without warning, spontaneously, like a hidden land mine waiting to detonate unexpectedly.

Brockovich to address SC trial lawyers convention

The South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association announced Erin Brockovich is speaking to 1,000 attendees Saturday on Hilton Head Island.

Brockovich rose to prominence when she put together a landmark 1996 water pollution case that won the residents of the a small California desert town a $333 million settlement from state utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

On July 21, 2008 Erin was a guest on "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC. The segment title was called, Inside the minds of those who have achieved the American Dream. Other guests included Famous Dave Anderson, entrepreneur and multi-millionaire and Paul Stanley former lead singer of the rock group "KISS". In part the show was about how to become successful, even if you were labeled "Least likely to succeed in high school". The entire experience was a blast and very informative.

Exposed Chromium Fraud. An EWG investigation revealed that safety standards from chromium-6 – the “Erin Brockovich” chemical – had been skewed by a faked cancer study.... Media coverage led the Environmental Protection Agency to stop registration of all residential uses of a wood preservative containing chromium-6, keeping a potent carcinogen from entering the bloodstream of millions of unsuspecting children, homeowners, and workers.
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If you have been adversely affected by Trasylol, get your case evaluated by Masry and Vititoe, or use the contact form on Masry and Vititoe's Townsquare Forums .

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ERIN HELPS RIVERSIDE

Erin is currently investigating the high rate of cancer, and high blood levels of hexavalent chromium in the residents downwind of the TXI Riverside Cement Plant.

Multiple carcinogenic emissions and pollutants are in the "white dust" cement plant emissions that descend on residents. Currently there is no monitors in Rugby gauging toxic pollutants and metals being emitted constantly.

(Cancer-causing vaporised mercury, arsenic, lead, dioxins etc.)

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Hinkley Residents Win Environmental Review

For Immediate Release, April 29, 2008

Contacts: Norm Diaz, helphinkley.org, (760) 963-3585
Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, (760) 366-2232 x 302
Ingrid Brostrom, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, (661) 720-9140 x 302
Hinkley Residents Win Challenge to Open-Air Sludge Compost Facility;
Community Activists Convince Judge to Order
Further Environmental Review for Proposed Project