Welcome to The Brockovich Report
A newsletter for those ready to get out of this mess, talking about the national water crisis, toxic chemicals, and other problems in your backyard.
Welcome to The Brockovich Report by me, Erin Brockovich, author of Superman's Not Coming. I’ve been exposing injustice and lending my voice to those who don't have one for many years, and I want to help others who are fighting environmental issues get into action. I’ll show you how.
Many of you know me from an Oscar-winning film starring Julia Roberts, but I’m a real person and I’ve been helping real people with problems just like the ones portrayed in that movie for almost 30 years now.
Unfortunately, these issues have become more widespread and people don’t even realize that we have a major water crisis in our country and around the world today. See here, here, here, here and here for more of my thoughts on this crisis.
I get thousands of emails and messages every month from all kinds of people who need help and my hope is that this platform can help us stay connected and learn more about these important issues together.
Why Water Matters
Good health begins with clean water and without access to that, it’s game over for all of us. I’m sick of large companies polluting small towns and getting away with it. I’m tired of our regulatory agencies not doing their jobs.
I’m not a lawyer, a scientist, or a politician; but I am someone who gives a damn and I know if you’re reading these words, you do too. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need a PhD or a law degree to speak up in your community and make it a better place for all.
I believe that in my lifetime consumers will become the regulators. It’s time to rise up and create a movement that exposes these issues and cleans them up, before it’s too late.
For years, I’ve been teaching one simple concept: Superman is not coming. We need to be the ones to save ourselves. And listen, even if Superman was coming, how long would it take him to clean up all of these communities? We all need to join this mission.
Getting Started
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The content here will include many other environmental concerns and ways you can become more involved.
Like any movement, I’m not in this alone. I’ll be sharing interviews and information from some amazing experts and advocates in the field. You’ll be hearing a lot from me and from one of my most trusted colleagues Suzanne Boothby, the executive editor of this newsletter helping steward the journalism side of things, researching these topics, and making sure all of our stories have sources and links.
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I am an industrial machine technician for over 37 years, since I was 18 years old. Recently I was working at Grupo bimbo Baking Company, THIS FACILITY IS ONE OF THE 1ST BAKERIES THAT BAKED MCDONALD'S BUNS. I noticed a terrible smell as they were baking buns, AT TIMES MCDONALD'S Burger King, Wendy's, KFC, Great Value products for Sam's Club Walmart BAYS ENGLISH MUFFINS BALL PARK FRANKS BUNS for all the supermarket chains such as TARGET KROGER JEWEL, MARIANOS, WALMART, SAMSCLUB, COSTCO, Shop/N/SAVE and numerous other SUPERMARKET CHAINS in the MIDWEST EAST West Coasts, & in the south. I notified the MANAGEMENT and HR Etc and they told me to mind my own "fucking" business and to get back to work I told them this is my business I have nose bleeds and spitting blood for months now, they told me again to mind my own "fucking" business those are their words!!! I reported them to OSHA EPA and FDA they were forced to put a filtering system on the roof so that the Expired burning ASBESTOS inside the oven and outside the oven would not get to the ATMOSPHERE and the OZONE LAYER they were using some type of chemicals in that Contraption on the roof to filter the air but it was still escaping ASBESTOS into the ATMOSPHERE and the OZONE especially inside of the facility where there were over 300 employees working throughout the shifts and throughout the years that they poisoned everybody with this CONTAMINATED BURNING & DISTURBED ASBESTOS, they were baking the asbestos into the product for McDonald's and all the other fast food CHAINS and SUPERMARKETS for MANY YEARS, they poisoned billions of PEOPLE, that is A CLASS ACTION & CONSUMER FRAUD LAWSUIT IN THE BILLIONS, they refused to seal off the oven until they had it removed while air was blowing on and around it where all the DISTURBED ASBESTOS was and it went into other products that were being made and developed in the area and packaged soon thereafter & EMPLOYEES WORKING THERE! I got hurt tore my rotator cuff labrum injured 2 herniated discs and my back, sciatic problems, for about 6 months they refused any medical treatment to me and told me that I was not entitled to workman's comp because I had already whistle blown to OSHA EPA and FDA on them and they were very angry and made it a hostile environment broke my tools stole my tools sexual harassment against me threatened my life, one of the plant managers came on to the highway at high speeds trying to flip me over to crash on the highway shot projectiles at my vehicle with his Thug friends and then they saw that I was not going to quit from the facility he brought his friends again and they shot at me numerous times and on different dates until today I watch my back, the police came to the scenes made reports but refused to arrest the shooters that were visible to catch and they wouldn't go after them, we reported all of this to the FBI and the doj instead of investigating the police the baking company and supervisor they put us on a watch list for reporting to them about these incidents, they told my doctor to release me on full Duty because they refused to bring me back on light duty but they always allowed all employees on work comp to come back on light duty except for me and when he did force me to go back when I was not even treated I was telling him they're going to fire me for being a whistleblower about the ASBESTOS insulation inside of the bread that I reported to OSHA EPA and FBA they're going to fire me he said they cannot do that they will be all over the news and I said they are and he insisted I go back to try I didn't want to but I went and they fired me that day now I am looking for an attorney for whistleblower retaliatory discharge and retaliatory discharge for workman's compensation and class action lawsuit and Consumer Fraud with the intent & knowing selling bread that had been contaminated with ASBESTOS. Mrs Brockovich PLEASE HELP ME & the innocent. I also have videos & PICTURES of the oven WITH the the DISTURBED ASBESTOS. PLEASE CALL ME AT 773-814-4662 IF I MISS UR CALL PLEASE LEAVE A TEXT or a VOICEMAIL MESSAGE🙏🙏🙏PLEASE HELP US, NOW IM OUT OF A JOB & THEY REFUSE TO PAY ME MY WORKMANS COMPENSATION WEEKLY PAYMENTS.🙏🙏🙏
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We have a similar problem with a landfill in Nova Scotia Canada, it was illegally taking auto shredder residue, into a construction debris landfill where it had no permission , none asked none given, the dump was built on a wetland and its aquifer feeds the 25 drinking water wells below, the toxic auto shredder residue is bad enough, but it caught fire at least twice, I had to move away from the smell of it alone, our provincial government trying to cover up the crimes of this lawless landfill as it is now owned by a construction company that does all the governments big contracts, we filed a freedom of information about well testing ect, but it came back incomplete. Does show industrial levels of lead, and shows the dump is still on fire. They didn’t give us any more info than that, the dump is still open and continues to poison the watershed , auto shredder residue had its own receipt book, and the manager of the dump also owns a scrap metal company that sells its metal to the same company that was dumping thier auto shredder residue at the landfill, the scrap metal company recently burned to the ground, leaving me to assume the scrap metal company was a money laundering endeavour for John Ross and sons auto shredder residue, I worked at the dump for 2 years and lived right across the street for 5 years once I found out the auto shredder residue had no permission I documented all the loads I saw while I was home, 9 months of pictures and emails to environment, with no response until I sent a picture of it on fire again, but that didn’t stop it from coming out either, it just kept coming. I have a petition on change.org, a dump with 2 receipt books, we have had 3 news agencies do stories, but still to be covered up by our government... we need out side help, for the health of the residents below the landfill ..thank you for the platform, andy George Bridgetown, Nova Scotia 902-707-1296