Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich Is Back On The Big Screen

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.04.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Erin Brockovich has long been a champion for clean water. Her efforts to sue Pacific Gas & Electric for polluting the water supply...

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Water Ills Focus of New Documentary

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012

Last Call at the Oasis highlights global water crisis but opines that the "glass is half full."

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Erin Brockovich: 'The Truth Is Empowering'

Posted 05.06.2012

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Last week, indomitable consumer advocate Erin Brockovich stopped by The Huffington Post to talk about her sobering new documentary on the global water...

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Erin Brockovich Warns Of 'The Biggest Black Eye On America'

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.01.2012

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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich recently held a roundtable discussion at The Huffington Post's offices to address water contamination challenge...

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Erin Brockovich To Investigate Mystery Illness At LeRoy High School

The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 01.31.2012

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UPDATED JAN. 30: CNN reported that the Le Roy Central School District is hiring an outside environmental testing company to test Le Roy High School an...

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PHOTOS: Which Superstar Made The Most Amazing Transformation?

Posted 02.16.2012

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Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. And because the multi-dimensional, damaged, brilliant and bizarre so often shape the fate our our world, the...

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PHOTOS: Erin Brockovich On Regret, Reincarnation, Rules and Risks

The Huffington Post | Debra Ollivier and Evan Allis | Posted 01.08.2012

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In 1993, a 32-year-old legal clerk named Erin Brockovich made history for boldly pursuing an investigation that resulted in the largest settlement eve...

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The Coal Ash Dilemma

J Henry Fair | Posted 12.13.2011

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Our reliance on coal for electricity production has produced about 600 coal ash dumps around the country.

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New York Environmentalist Rallies For Cleaner Air

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 11.07.2011

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Erin Heaney doesn't mind being compared to another environmentally-minded Erin -- the one whose story became permanently etched into global consciousn...

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Oscar-Winning Director's Story Gets More Confusing, Now Denies Rumors

Posted 11.05.2011

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Perhaps Steven Soderbergh is playing us all. Perhaps, the inventive Oscar-winning director has just stumbled upon his next filmmaking form, a new meta...

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Oscar-Winning Director Confirms Retirement

Posted 10.30.2011

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With the story line beginning to resemble his multi-strained masterpieces, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, in a roundabout, hedging way, con...

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Asthma and Clean Air: One Mother's Fight in Texas

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.02.2011

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"I contacted Erin Brockovich, who came to Midlothian in 2005. She told me that if I lived anywhere else in the nation, we would have a lawsuit. However, she informed me that Texas was a 'business first, people second,' state."

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The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011

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Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.

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Water Utilities Knew Of Likely Carcinogenic Chemical Contamination For Years

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.04.2011

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The tap water industry has known since 2004 about worrisome levels of a suspected carcinogen in America's drinking water, claims Environmental Working...

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Erin Brockovich Returns To Hinkley Like '20 Years Never Happened'

AP | By NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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HINKLEY, Calif. -- At the end of "Erin Brockovich," a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she's handed her portion of a historic $333...

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Steven Soderbergh Retiring, Says Matt Damon

Posted 05.25.2011

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What does an Academy Award-winning director do next? Apparently, go be a painter. Matt Damon told The Los Angeles Times that his long time collaborat...

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Toxic 'Erin Brockovich' Chemical Found In Tap Water Of 31 U.S. Cities

The Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium-6, first gained notoriety when the film "Erin Brockovich" highlighted the plight of Hinkley, California, w...

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Probable Carcinogen Found In Drinking Water In 31 Cities

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most cont...

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Erin Brockovich Oil Spill Visit Planned: Fishermen Sickened By Dispersant Contact Advocate

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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HOUMA, La. — Environmental and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich will be in southern Louisiana to speak to people who say they've been sickened ...

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Celebrating History Can Inspire Us to Make it

Maria Shriver | Posted 11.17.2011

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The engine of history is turning, but too slowly. This Women's History Month, let's help push pay inequity and other forms of gender inequality back into the past to stay.

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ABC NEWS: Is 'Financial Tough Love' The Right Approach For Drug Addicts? (WATCH)

ABC News | Posted 11.17.2011

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A recent two-part ABC News special titled Family in Crisis: At the Breakpoint brought to light a troubling aspect of the modern family: the tendency o...

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The Legacy of Erin Brockovich: Chromium Contamination in Drinking Water

Gina Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost ten years after Julia Roberts played the title role in the movie, the saga about chromium contamination in drinking water continues.

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The Must-See Environmental Movies Of The Decade (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The environment has been at the forefront of pop culture during the 2000's. HuffPost Green thought we'd compile some of the decade's best narrative gr...

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Erin Brockovich, Seventh Generation Launch Million Baby Crawl Campaign (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Oh baby! Seventh Generation has teamed up with Erin Brockovich and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families in order to overthrow the old chemical legislatio...

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Interview: Steven Soderbergh talks about The Informant!

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Twenty years after he burst onto the scene, Steven Soderbergh considers what's changed in the intervening decades, and his upcoming film, The Informant!

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