Cancer-causing gas in Beverly Hills California

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Cancer-causing gas in Beverly Hills California

• By Michael Zara

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Erin Brockovichs law firm is at it again!

• The City of Beverly Hills and three oil companies
  presently have a law suit against them pending
  for ignoring cancer causing toxic gases that have
  been leaking from oil wells drilled on the
  Beverly Hills school grounds.

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History

• Post World War II Beverly Hills was found too
  have oil and gas reserves, and the area was
  lightly drilled.
• The drilling leases were owned at the time by
  Getty oil and Standard oil, the Beverly Hills
  school district collected 25 million dollars in
  1973 for the use of the area.

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More History...

• Right now there are 18 active wells and 25
  abandoned wells on an 8000 sq. ft. property lease
  held by Venoco.
• The air around the track and out door basketball
  facilities was tested and found positive for
  benzene and n-hexane (both carcinogens) and
  methane (which is poisonous). These gases are
  constantly seeping from one of the sites.

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Litigants

• Chevron-Texaco Oil
• Occidental Petroleum Corp
• Venoco Inc. of Carpinteria

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Plaintiffs

• Suit was promoted by two students who went to the
  Beverly Hills High School and who had been
  infected by the same type of rare cancer. The
  cancer is called Hodgkins. The chance of
  contracting this type of cancer is 1 in 100,000.
• Brockovich has found 20 other cases of Hodgkins
  lymphoma and 12 cases of non- hodgkins at
  Beverly Hills High.