The true story of the town behind ‘Erin Brockovich’

Grist
By Max GenecovJan 29, 2019, 7:00 am174 pts
It was a sweltering, 117-degree July day in Hinkley, California. The surface of the 13-mile highway east to Barstow had become an asphalt skillet, and the town’s lone recreational feature, a children’s playscape, stood shining and unused like a monument to the lofty melting point of low-density…

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