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...their legal and financial triumph celebrated in the movie. That victory has gone largely unchallenged, except by columnist and author Michael Fumento who, as early as 2000, documented some of the firm's questionable tactics. The suit, on behalf of Hinkley, California residents, focused on an ionized form of chromium called chromium-6, a rust inhibitor that was carelessly dumped by the giant utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, and seeped into the groundwater used by the town's residents. In bringing suit against PG&E, Brockovich's law firm charged that chromium-6, in addition to causing cancer, was responsible...
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW? Another case against PG&E, involving chromium 6 in groundwater in Kettleman City, which is off Interstate 5 in California. The case started...
...Another designer whose works are still fashionable is Poul Kjærholm. A version of his PK22 chair - a wedge of black leather supported by chromium-plated legs - resides in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "I try to show that classics are still going strong and can be combined with very modern lighting," says Kjærholm's son Thomas, who operates a furniture store dedicated to Denmark's classic designs and sells furniture worldwide through his website (www.kjaerholms.dk). "My father has been dead 20 years, but interest in his designs is increasing all the time, even...
...stuff. She knew all the guys were looking at her." Brockovich, as anyone who has seen the movie knows, was the sexy single mom who helped the residents of Hinkley, Calif., win a record $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their well water with toxic chromium VI. Then, like a true Cinderella, she sold her story to Hollywood. Happy ending? Not quite. "Good movie," says Lynn Morris from one end of the bar, "but they're making millions, and we're still dying out here...
...more Hinkley residents and a group of victims in nearby Kettleman City. So many are seeking to be part of a third lawsuit--800 in all--that Masry is turning people away. Hinkley resident Susan Cordova, who claims the hysterectomy she had at 28 was necessitated by the chromium contamination but has twice been turned down by Masry, says lawyers in Los Angeles (one of whom was portrayed by Peter Coyote in the movie) told her that she should be "ashamed" for complaining since her health problems weren't life-threatening. (The lawyers deny having said this.) Masry and Brockovich...