School Oil Wells Cause Beverly Hills Willies
Erin Brockovich and lawyer Ed Masry, whose legal efforts on behalf of a group of small-town victims of polluted water were portrayed in a hit movie bearing her name, targeted the Beverly Hills, Calif., school district last week for their latest round of environmental activism.
Masry & Vititoe, a Westlake Village, Calif., law firm where Ms. Brockovich is research director, alleges that toxic emissions from oil wells under Beverly Hills High School caused as many as 300 cases of Hodgkin's disease, non- Hodgkin's lymphoma, and thyroid cancer among alumni and nearby residents.
"The school has the equivalent of an offshore oil rig under its land," Ms. Brockovich said in an interview last week. "We're standing here for 300 people with cancer and they all have one common denominator:...
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