National Coverage
BROADCAST
The following broadcast clips feature interviews with Erin Brockovich:
- 12/30/15: CNN Newsroom
- 12/30/15: Democracy Now!
- 12/27/15: MSNBC Weekends with Alex Witt
PRINT AND ONLINE
- Slightly different versions of the LA Daily News editorial from 12/22 mentioning how Erin Brockovich has likened the leak to the BP oil spill appeared in the Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News. The San Jose Mercury News editorial was also included in an Associated Press roundup of editorials from California.
- Business Insider: “At this very moment, a natural gas well in a quiet, hilly town in northern Los Angeles is spewing hundreds of millions of pounds of methane into the atmosphere. … Residents claim the gas, which has drifted into surrounding neighborhoods, is sickening them with nausea, nosebleeds, and headaches. Thousands of people are displaced as a result. Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has gone so far as to deem this one of the worst environmental disasters since the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.” (Business Insider, 12/30/15)
- Examiner: “DemocracyNow.org reports the natural gas leak above Los Angeles has emitted more than 150 million pounds of methane. The fumes have caused headaches and nosebleeds. Renowned consumer advocate and legal researcher Erin Brockovich, who helped win the biggest class action lawsuit in American history, said the methane gas leak is the worst U.S. environmental disaster since the BP oil spill. She is now working to seek justice for victims of the Porter Ranch gas leak. Brockovich spoke of a video released online. ‘The scope of it is enormous,’ she said. ‘And there is another videotape there that really helps us see pollution, because I think we can’t see it, so therefore we don’t always think that it’s real.’” (Examiner, 12/30/15)
- Examiner: “‘And it’s amazing,’ Brockovich continued. ‘It looks like a volcano that’s just erupting, that won’t stop.’ Brockovich said if you fly over and have the right lense you can see that it’s ‘like a black plume of smoke through there that just continues to billow out. And the magnitude is enormous,’ she said. She added, ‘And it’s frightening for us to have a company like this, where you can’t get down there, and you’ve removed a valve, you didn’t replace that valve, and you now don’t have the ability to stop this for half a year or longer—is a bad scenario.’ Visit DemocracyNow.org for a complete transcript of the interview.” (Examiner, 12/30/15)
- Newser: “Erin Brockovich is calling it the worst environmental catastrophe since the 2010 BP oil spill: Methane has been leaking from a well in Los Angeles for at least two months and will continue to do so for at least two more. … The director of the [Environmental Defense Fund’s] California oil and gas program adds that the Porter Ranch site is part of an aging network of natural gas plants and pipelines. ‘This type of event could happen at any one of these other sites,’ says Tim O’Connor. As for Brockovich’s claim, he tells Quartz it’s an apples-and-oranges thing—but this ‘a very big orange.’” (Newser, 12/29/15)
- Quartz: “The slow-motion disaster is reminiscent of BP’s efforts to seal a ruptured well that toppled the company’s enormous Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and killed 11 workers in 2010. It took the company many attempts over nearly three months to control the oil gusher as the public helplessly watched footage of a dark plume spreading through the Gulf of Mexico. Erin Brockovich, the consumer advocate played by Julia Roberts in the movie with the same name, has called the Aliso Canyon leak the worst environmental catastrophe since the BP oil spill.” (Quartz, 12/28/15)
Local Coverage
TV
- December 15: KNBC
- December 15: KTLA
- December 14: KTTV
- December 10: KABC
- December 10: KTTV
- December 10: KTLA
- December 10: KNBC
- December 9: KCAL
- December 9: KCAL
RADIO
- December 19: KABC’s Gurvey’s Law Program (28:30 mark)
- December 17: KFI’s John and Ken Show
- December 10: KNX AM
PRINT AND ONLINE
- MSNBC.com, “Porter Ranch gas leak a catastrophe not seen since the BP oil spill”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/porter-ranch-gas-leak-catastrophe-not-seen-the-bp-oil-spill - Los Angeles Daily News, “Two months in, Porter Ranch gas leak compared to BP Gulf oil spill”
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20151219/two-months-in-porter-ranch-gas-leak-compared-to-bp-gulf-oil-spill - Los Angeles Daily News, “Erin Brockovich calls on her neighbors to unite over Porter Ranch gas leak”
http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20151209/erin-brockovich-calls-on-her-neighbors-to-unite-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak - BuzzFeed, “Families Sue As Thousands Flee Gas Leak “Disaster” In Los Angeles”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/families-sue-as-thousands-flee-gas-leak-disaster-in-los-ange#.ps04Z1EpK - L.A. Weekly, “What Went Wrong At Porter Ranch?”
http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-went-wrong-at-porter-ranch-6405804 - Los Angeles Daily News, “Erin Brockovich will assist Porter Ranch residents affected by gas leak”
http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20151203/erin-brockovich-will-assist-porter-ranch-residents-affected-by-gas-leak - JD Supra, “SoCalGas Sued in Class Action over Porter Ranch Gas Leak”
http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/socalgas-sued-in-class-action-over-72059/ - Los Angeles Daily News (Editorial), “Gov. Brown, gas leak in Porter Ranch demands more of you”
http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20151222/gov-brown-gas-leak-in-porter-ranch-demands-more-of-you - BuzzFeed, “Tons Of Methane Are Spewing Out Of California, And There’s A Connection To The Governor”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/sister-of-climate-hero-jerry-brown-is-overseeing-a-mind-bogg#.ssvjEJLBZ - Los Angeles Daily News, “State gets more involved in Porter Ranch gas leak; EPA asked to investigate”
http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20151210/state-gets-more-involved-in-porter-ranch-gas-leak-epa-asked-to-investigate - Los Angeles Daily News, “Attorneys: Video shows massive gas leak above Porter Ranch”
http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20151208/attorneys-video-shows-massive-gas-leak-above-porter-ranch - KQED, “Porter Ranch Residents at Wit’s End Over Months-Old Gas Leak”
http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/porter-ranch-residents-at-wits-end-over-months-old-gas-leak - LA Observed, “Porter Ranch gas leak in 8th week and not going away”
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2015/12/porter_ranch_gas_leak_isn.php