An energy firm has agreed to pay an extra US$295 million ($438 million) to Californians who sued it in a pollution cancer case made famous in the film Erin Brockovich.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company released chromium in groundwater north of LA.
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Extra 'Erin Brockovich' payout
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