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Last Updated on Tuesday, 8 July 2008 10:58 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 July 2008 10:06
We admit, if it wasn’t for the Julia Roberts reference, we probably wouldn’t have covered this story. From the Sacbee:
State Attorney General Jerry Brown and Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco are suing a cement factory, saying it exposed neighbors to toxic cement dust without warning them.
The suit, filed Thursday in Superior Court, seeks to get TXI Riverside Cement Co. to stop its practices that are causing exposure to hexavalent chromium. The carcinogen, the same one featured in the movie “Erin Brockovich,” has been carried by dust into neighborhoods near the factory in the Rubidoux area.