Fumento erin brockovich biography

He has been a frequent critic of activist Erin Brockovich since her eponymous movie first appeared in 2000.
Fumento is a lawyer who works at the conservative Hudson Institute.
Journalist and attorney Michael Fumento published a series of articles in newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, blasting Brockovich and.

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Erin Brockovich (a/k/a Erin Brockovich-Ellis since her 1999 remaraige to actor Eric Ellis) was a ho-hum legal assistant in California until she discovered that Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) had leached trace amounts of chromium into the water supply of the town of Hinkley. She was almost instantly elevated to the role of people’s champion and parlayed the trace amounts of chromium into a $333 million dollar settlement on behalf of a number of Hinkley citizens, who, according to her, suffered from a variety of ailments caused by chromium toxicity. This modern account of David versus Goliath was compelling enough to be made into a Julia Roberts film hit, which, in turn, propelled the real-life Erin Brockovich to stardom on the lecture circuit. But a troublesome question lurks in some scientists’ minds. Were the riches and fame a reward for good science or good science fiction?

Michael Fumento, a lawyer and accomplished science writer, was one of the first to suggest that maybe the Empress had no clothes. Fumento dared to argue that this paragon of virtue, this

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Erin Brockovich-Ellis: A Warrior, A Mom, A Woman

in California, Denise Huijuan Jia, Fall 2004 Newswire
November 22nd, 2004

By Huijuan Jia

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2004-“If anything I could think of can go behind my name, it’s going to be: Erin Brockovich, 36 DD.”

Erin Brockovich-Ellis, who became world-famous practically overnight through a hit movie named after her, was describing her title to hundreds of public health professionals, most with Ph.D.s or M.D.s after their names, at a conference in Washington’s Convention Center.

The audience laughed. She waited for nearly a minute for the laughter to quiet down. With short blonde hair, a red, deep, v-neck, slim-fitting sweater, an ivory multiple stone-chained necklace with an egg-sized pendant, a black knee-length waist-belted leather coat and black high-heeled boots, Brockovich-Ellis, now 44, is no longer the sassy and flashy law firm clerk featured in the movie. But she still looks sexy and cool.

And she is definitely not short of titles behind her name. No longer a file clerk, she now serve

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All About Erin

It took a few months for the investigative journalists to overtake the Hollywood dream spinners, but by now it's been pretty well established: What got left out of the blockbuster movie Erin Brockovich (now available at a video store near you) was in many ways juicier than what got put in.

You're probably familiar with the basic Erin story, as portrayed by the winsome Julia Roberts in a critically acclaimed performance. A spunky, foul-mouthed single mother down on her luck, Erin gets herself hired with no experience for a routine job at a Los Angeles personal injury law firm. Soon she stumbles into evidence that the townspeople of little Hinkley, California, are being poisoned by pollution in the water table originating with giant utility Pacific Gas & Electric, which runs a plant there. Brockovich begins doggedly accumulating evidence, convinces the lawyers in her firm they've got a case, and recruits townspeople to sue. Eventually, without admitting guilt, the utility coughs up an impressive $333 million settlement, a record for this kind of case.

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