Waiting For The Light As Storm Clears
After what seemed like a month of rain, the storms abated earlier this week to provide this spectacular view of the San Gabriel Mountains seen from Norco. At these times the atmosphere here in Southern California, frequently thick with smog, is at its absolute crystal-clearest. It seems we can see forever. Add light from a ...
Hinkley, CA: Toxic Sequel to “Erin Brockovich”
On a recent assignment for The Christian Science Monitor, I visited the Mojave Desert community of Hinkley, made famous by the 2000 movie, “Erin Brockovich,” where groundwater contamination from the dumping of chromium-6 by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) over the years resulted in a record $333 million settlement with residents in 1996. The industrial ...
