THE PG&E HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM CONTAMINATION
Episode 227 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the PG&E hexavalent chromium contamination of Hinkley, California — 370 million gallons of chromium-6 dumped into unlined ponds from 1952 to 1966, leaching into the groundwater that the town of Hinkley drank. PG&E knew about the contamination decades before the town did. Residents were told the chromium was harmless. Some were told it was nutritionally beneficial.
We trace the investigation by legal clerk Erin Brockovich, the 1996 settlement of $333 million — the largest direct-action lawsuit settlement in American history at…
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