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Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Written by Susannah Grant, Produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher, Starring: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, with Cinematography by Ed Lachman, and Edited by Anne V. Coates, with Music by Thomas Newman, Production companies: Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and Jersey Films, Distributed by Universal Pictures (North America), Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (International)(2000)
Erin Brockovich and Ed Masry pose for exclusive portraits April 3, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Ann Summa/Liaison
Erin Brockovich-Ellis during "Erin Brockovich" Premiere at Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, California, United States. Photo by SGranitz/WireImage
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Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in "Erin Brockovich" (2000) Photo by Getty Images/Universal Pictures/Columbia Pictures
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Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in "Erin Brockovich" (2000) Photo by Getty Images/Universal Pictures/Columbia Pictures
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at 300 Lakeside Drive, in Oakland, California. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County, almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines. Overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E is the leading subsidiary of the holding company PG&E Corporation, which has a market capitalization of $36.33 billion as of February 23, 2024. PG&E was established on October 10, 1905 from the merger and consolidation of predecessor utility companies, and by 1984 was the United States' "largest electric utility business". PG&E is one of six regulated, investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) in California; the other five are PacifiCorp, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, Bear Valley Electric, and Liberty Utilities. In 2018 and 2019, the company received widespread media attention when investigations by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) assigned the company primary blame for two separate devastating wildfires in California. The formal finding of liability led to losses in federal bankruptcy court. On January 14, 2019, PG&E announced its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to its liability for the catastrophic 2017 and 2018 wildfires in Northern California. The company hoped to come out of bankruptcy by June 30, 2020, and was successful on Saturday, June 20, 2020, when U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali issued the final approval of the plan for PG&E to exit bankruptcy.
Satellite image of Hinkley, Barstow and Harper Lake, California. From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million gallons (1,400 million litres) of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles. PG&E used chromium 6, or hexavalent chromium (a cheap and efficient rust suppressor), in its compressor station for natural-gas transmission pipelines. Hexavalent-chromium compounds are genotoxic carcinogens. In 1993, legal clerk Erin Brockovich began an investigation into the health impacts of the contamination. A class-action lawsuit about the contamination was settled in 1996 on July 2 for $333 million (around $634 million in 2023). In 2008, PG&E settled the last of the cases involved with the Hinkley claims. Since then, the town's population has dwindled to the point that in 2016 The New York Times described Hinkley as having slowly become a ghost town. Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons

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