Erin Brockovich, an American woman, was born in Kansas. She studied at a business college for a year, then she moved
to southern California and married a restaurant manager.
In 1990, when she was thirty years old, she was in a car
accident. A law company helped hor after the accident, and
later she started to work for them.
For job was to organise papers. One day Erin realised that
there were lots of papers about some very sick people
in a place called Hinkley. She started to look for more
information about the town.
Erin worked very hard
for five years. She visited
lots of sick people in
Hinkloy and listened
to their stories. All
the people lived near
a big Pacific Gas and
Electric factory and she
discovered that there
was a chemical called
chromium in the local
water. It was from the
factory and Erin believed
that the people were sick
because ofthe chromium
in their drinking water.
She planned to help them.
Erin and her boss started
a law case against the
Pacific Gas and Electric
company.
this. They
because of
ordered Pa
people in H
600 sick.The company wasn't happy about
this. They didn't agree that the people were ill
because of the water - but in 1996 thejudge
ordered Pacific Gas and Electric to pay the
people in Hinkley $500,000 each (there were
600 sick people, so that was $333 million
in total).
In 2000, there was a film about Erin Brockovich.
Julia Roberts played Erin and the film was very
successful. Now Erin is famous - she has her own
company and she gives talks all over the world.

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1 What was Erin's job at the law company?
2 Why did Erin start to look for more information about Hinkley?
3 Where did the sick people in Hinkley live?
4 What was Erin's theory about why the people were sick?
5 How much money did Pacific Gas and Electric pay to people in Hinkley?
6 What does Erin Brockovich do now?
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