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Video: Science for Sale

by The Center for Public Integrity March 13, 2013January 28, 2022

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Video: Science for Sale

by The Center for Public Integrity, Center for Public Integrity
March 13, 2013

					<h1>Video: Science for Sale</h1>
<p class="byline">by The Center for Public Integrity, Center for Public Integrity <br />March 13, 2013</p>
					
<p>In part one of a two-part series, PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien travels to Hinkley, Calif.– the town whose multi-million dollar settlement for groundwater contamination was featured in the movie “Erin Brockovich.” Now, almost 30 years later, O’Brien explores the reasons why the groundwater in Hinkley still has dangerous levels of the chemical chromium and its link to cancer.</p>
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