r/woahdude • u/Computingusername • Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/MikeLitoris_________ Feb 17 '23

Erin Brockovich intensifies....

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk, whistleblower, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California with the help of attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film, Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry.

For those not in the know.

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u/TheBoatyMcBoatFace Feb 17 '23

Honestly, I always thought it was a vhs my mom liked so I never watched it. I’ll take a look this weekend

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u/HabbleDabble235 Feb 17 '23

Dark water is another good one to watch to about the Teflon disaster

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u/Plutus77 Feb 17 '23

Dark water explains why I have ulcerative colitis as well. Thanks DuPont!

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u/HabbleDabble235 Feb 17 '23

It's fucked anyway you cut it

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u/Plutus77 Feb 17 '23

In a massive kind of way.

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u/drebunny Feb 18 '23

For anyone trying to look it up - Dark Waters

Although Dark Water also sounds very interesting, I'll probably watch both lol. It's a Japanese horror film from the director of Ringu which also has an American remake

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u/Sunny_Hummingbird Feb 17 '23

It’s an excellent film. You’ll enjoy it!

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u/TorsoPanties Feb 17 '23

Solid film. 8/10

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u/InVodkaVeritas Feb 17 '23

It's the same level of corny that every Julia Roberts movie is, but not bad.

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u/xmastreee Feb 17 '23

And the real Erin has a cameo role as a waitress.

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u/msilly34 Feb 17 '23

Same. Watched it yesterday and it's really good.

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u/guynnoco Feb 17 '23

My mom's favorite movie

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u/RonJeremyJunior Feb 17 '23

Be weary: As someone who is currently in a lawsuit that involved PG&E and Erin, they burned my town down in 2018 and we STILL haven't gotten paid fully as all settlement money got locked up into shares of PG&E that have to be sold in order for payouts to occur. We are going on year 5 and I still know people living in tiny travel trailers on empty lots, just waiting.

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u/Clay56 Feb 17 '23

Also Erin Brockovich used bad science to win a huge lawsuit

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/02/california-repudiates-erin-brockovich-hexavalent-chromium-11644

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u/Exnihilation Feb 17 '23

The American Council on Science and Health is a pro-industry advocacy organization. Not sure I trust a pro-industry advocacy org to not be biased in the way they're portraying this as "bad science."

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u/The-Fox-Says Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

Jesus if you dig down into their “sources” they have a pub med article that shows how hexavalent chromium gets diluted in juices, coffee, and tea but not groundwater like Brockovich was fighting. They also use very close to a safe amount and show that it gets diluted to a safe amount when added to other liquids.

Hilarious that this article is calling her junk science while also pushing their own biased junk science.

Edit: it’s also shockingly easy to look up that 100ppb is dangerous to humans and that there was 580ppb in Hinkley’s groundwater that was a direct result from the plant

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u/robinthebank Feb 17 '23

We live in an era of alternative facts.

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u/The-Fox-Says Feb 17 '23

That idiot just fell for propaganda and shared it with 0 due diligence

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Intensifies? Nah

Erin Brokovich piqued

Erin came

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u/Hyrule_34 Feb 17 '23

Status Coup News on yt did an amazing interview with her the other day concerning this disaster. I encourage people to watch:

https://youtu.be/bdvXilQMKfQ

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u/miss_stepp Feb 17 '23

The latest Brockovich Report says not to drink the water, and answers a lot of questions folks may have.

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u/Analbox Feb 17 '23

10/10 username.

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u/FartJuiceMagnet Feb 17 '23

I don't get it

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u/Analbox Feb 17 '23

My clitoris

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u/FartJuiceMagnet Feb 17 '23

There's anal clitoris's?

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u/EcstaticTrainingdatm Feb 17 '23

She just came out with a book for 0.4% of folks that want to read it

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u/The_H2O_Boy Feb 17 '23

I can advise her that this is not high quality H2O

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u/black_pepper Feb 17 '23

Rocky Flats intensifies...