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Environmental activist from the United States
Erin Brockovich is an American legal clerk, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who, despite her lack of education in the law, was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company involving groundwater contamination in a town in California with the help of attorney Ed Masry in 1993.Wikipedia
| Born | June 22, 1960 |
| Hometown | Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America |
| Net worth | $10 million |
| Height | 5'10" (1.78m) |
| Spouse | Eric L. Ellis (m 1998 - 2012) , Steven Brockovich (m 1989 - 1990) , Shawn Brown (m 1982 - 1987) |
| Children | Katie Brown , Beth Brockovich , Matthew Brown |
| Parents | Frank Pattee |
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Arica, review: a grimly enthralling tale of corporate delinquency
- In 2010, a pair of filmmakers from Sweden made a documentary called Toxic Playground, which exposed an enormously harmful case of corporate delinquency. Back in the 1980s, the multinational Boliden, which has been mining gold in the northeast of Sweden since the 1920s, had found a way to outsource dealing with their smelter sludge, a dangerous waste product composed of about 17% arsenic.
