Continuing to work with the lawyer Ed Masry, she went on to participate in other anti-pollution lawsuits. One accuses Whitman Corp of chromium contamination in Willits, California, and another with 1,200 plaintiffs alleges contamination near PG&E's Kettleman Hills plant in Kings County.
The story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against PG&E was turned into a 1998 film of the same name directed by Steven Soderbergh and featuring Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich, a role for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Erin Brockovich has a cameo in this film as a waitress named Julia.