Julia Roberts portrayed her and her achievements in the 2000 film 'Erin Brockovich,' but it seems the famous legal clerk and activist has by no means rested on her laurels after it was reported that Brockovich and her team were investigating a mysterious chain of incidents in the Le Roy region of New York after several teenagers contracted an illness that's symptoms involved facial tics and Tourettes-style verbal outbursts. It's thought that the symptoms first started to occur in adolescents in the area last August and has grown to a level that the famed activist was bombarded with around a hundred emails from worried parents requesting to check the situation out.
Talking to USA Today, the 51 year-old said that she was studying federal and state reports of a 1970 train derailment in the area that spilled cyanide and trichloroethene three miles away from the school where the cases have been reported. "When I read reports like this that the New York Department of Health and state agencies were well-aware of the spill and you don't do water testing or vapor extraction tests, you don't have an all-clear," said Brockovich.
However, the school in Le Roy have been less than happy about Brockovich and her team's investigative work, and 13wham published a statement from their District saying that the team had been removed from the area, stating "It is appalling that whatever group or entity employing this individual, as well as the media outlets participating in this effort, chose to conduct themselves in this way - which can only be characterized as grandstanding," and continuing "Not only was this criminal activity which forced the District to call in local law enforcement to maintain the security of its property, it disrupted the District's preparations for a weekend music event involving students from over twenty-two schools as well as other student activities." The biopic on Brockovich in 2000 saw Roberts scoop an ACADEMY AWARD for Best Actress for a tale which depicted the famously unqualified legal clerk in her successful battle with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1993.
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