Review problem-pollution in the movies

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Problem: Pollution in the Movies

Perhaps surprisingly, toxic pollution has provided the central theme in two major Hollywood movies: Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action . The 2000 movie Erin Brockovich tells the story of a California community's battle against Pacific Gas & Electric for allegedly causing groundwater pollution resulting in extensive illness. [For more information on the pollutant at issue in the movie, the carcinogen hexavalent chromium] In the 1998 Disney movie A Civil Action, John Travolta played a plaintiff's lawyer based on a true story about some middle-class families who sued two corporate giants, Beatrice Food and W. R. Grace & Co., for allegedly polluting the groundwater in East Woburn, Massachusetts, where eight children died of leukemia.

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Look back at the discussion of proving causation at the start of Part Two. Using that terminology, describe the causation issues that had to be addressed in the real-life counterparts to these movies.

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