Celebrity Attorney Sheds Light On Camp Lejeune Water Contamination

Erin Brokovich likens the Camp Lejeune water contamination coverup to her PG&E lawsuit in the early 1990s

Saturday, October 29, 2022 - Erin Brockovich, one of the more notorious figures in water contamination litigation in the country over the last several decades, has weighed in with her thoughts on Camp Lejeune water pollution. Ms. Brockovich, now an attorney, is known for her work on a lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric over groundwater contamination in the early 1990s. Back then, Ms. Brockovich exposed a coverup by the electric utility of the facts they knew about their illegal disposal of toxic chemicals that polluted the local water table and area's drinking water supply. As a result of the recklessness, carelessness, and negligence of the management of the utility, hundreds of residents developed cancer and many died prematurely. The legal sleuth sees parallels between the PG&E coverup and a coverup by the US Navy, Marine Corps, and Department of Defense of the facts they knew about volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contaminating water treatment facilities at Camp Lejeune servicing residents there. Other PFAS forever chemicals (trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE)) have now been identified in the local Camp Lejeune water supply from improperly disposing of the firefighting foam airport firefighters train with, and use on petroleum and jet-fuel fires. Brockovich told StarNewsOnline.com, "(This) is the largest environmental contamination in the history of the United States of America," Brockovich said. "This was a coverup. The United States Government knew and they failed to tell you, and that infuriates me." She is speaking at Town Hall meetings in North Carolina and around the country to help educate former servicemembers, civilian employees, and private contractors who worked or lived at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 for at least thirty days that their lives may be in danger and also that the inexplicable cancer death of a loved one may be due to drinking Camp Lejeune water.

The recently enacted into law Camp Lejeune Justice Act allows all parties stationed at, living, working, or playing at the marine base the right to file a claim and lawsuit seeking lump-sum monetary compensation for water-consumption-related injuries like developing cancer or Parkinson's disease. According to StarNews, Brokovich will speak at town hall meetings in Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro shortly. Camp Lejeune residents that have developed cancer or the survivors of those who have died from the disease may benefit by speaking with a Camp Lejeune water attorney free of charge to help determine the monetary lump sum they may be entitled to. Filing a Camp Lejeune Justice Act claim will not impact any present benefits a servicemember is receiving. There is no ceiling on the monetary compensation one may ask for, however, despite the anger juries may feel toward the government's coverup of Camp Lejeune water contamination, punitive damages are not allowed. Lawsuits may also be filed against 3M, DuPont, and about 20 other companies that have been implicated in Camp Lejeune water contamination with carcinogenic PFAS forever chemicals from firefighting foam. the North Carolina Attorney General is suing these companies for millions of dollars to clean up the environment they knowingly contaminated. ">

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