Ethics Research

I am working with Lindsey for our ethics research project. Lindsey and I were going to do something regarding the government or something until we watched the movie Erin Brokovich this weekend. After watching that movie, we knew exactly what we wanted to do for our ethics presentation. The entire movie was an amazing example of an ethical lapse in history. Pacific Gas and Electric discovered they had hexavalent chromium in their holding pounds outside several plants in California. The hexavalant chromium was leaking into the ground water and PGE found out, but instead of informing the public and taking corrective measures, they hid the problem and swept it under the covers. Thousands of people that lived near the plants got sick (cancer, tumors, heart disease, miscarriages etc) and it wasn't until Erin Brokovich, an employee of a law firm began to research the problem, that the ethical lapse was uncovered.