April 24, 2009- Erin Brockovich, along with Field Environmental Investigator Bob Bowcock and Brian Madden, a lawyer with Madden and Redding Law Firm, spoke with the Cameron community on Wednesday night at Goodrich Auditorium.
On Wednesday morning, Madden's law firm, in conjunction with Stephen K. Griffin, a lawyer in Cameron, filed a suit in the 43rd Judicial Court against Prime Tanning Corp, National Beef Leathers Co. and Rick Ream, of St. Joseph.
The lawsuit states that the tanning company was distributing a waste byproduct from their operation that was given free to farmers to use as fertilizer. And that hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen also called chromium 6, used in the tanning process, is present in the material.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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