California acts to limit pollutant targeted by Erin Brockovich

The California Environmental Protection Agency has issued the nation’s first public health goal for hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing heavy metal made infamous after activist Erin Brockovich sued in 1993 to prove it had contaminated groundwater in the Southern California town of Hinkley.

At that time, the average hexavalent chromium levels in Hinkley's water was 1.19 parts per billion (ppb). The new state goal was set Wednesday at 0.02 ppb, judged to be the minimum amount of the element that poses a significant health risk in water, according to state officials

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Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Time –Greenspace-posted by Molly Hennessy-Fiske