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Brockovich to speak at POST event next week Brockovich Environmentalist and consumer rights activist Erin Brockovich will headline the Peninsula Open Space Trust’s Wallace Stegner Lecture, scheduled 7 p.m. Tuesday online. Now in its 29th year, the series’ 2021 theme, “The Path Forward,” focuses on how the community can address today’s social and environmental issues. While working as a file clerk at a Los Angeles law firm in 1992, Brockovich uncovered documents that ultimately led to more than 600 residents of the town of Hinkley filing a lawsuit against utility giant PG&E. Since then, she has worked on a host of environmental issues across the country and been involved in dozens of legal cases and campaigns, including a variety of groundwater contamination issues, oil and natural gas pollution, fracking and pharmaceuticals. During her talk, Brockovich will share inspiring stories of how bringing people together to address environmental issues can ....