Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich, environmental activist, consumer advocate, champion fighter-maverick, whose courageous case against Pacific Gas and Electric was dramatized in the Oscar-winning film, is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting and the founder of the Erin Brockovich Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to educate and empower communities in their fight for clean water. Coauthor Suzanne Boothby is a journalist and writer focused on health, food politics, and eco-conscious stories. In Superman’s Not Coming (Pantheon), her first book, Brockovich looks at our situation regarding water and the imminent threats to our most precious, essential element. She also discusses how we can each take action to make changes in our cities, our towns, our villages, before it is too late. She writes about how the concerns of his customers led the water operator in Poughkeepsie, New York, to change his system and create some of the safest water in the country; or about the moms in Hannibal, Missouri, the first citizens in the nation to file an ordinance prohibiting the use of ammonia in their public drinking water. Superman’s Not Coming, is about how we can tools to take actions ourselves to protect our right to clean water.