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Cancer-causing gas in Beverly Hills California By Michael Zara Erin Brockovich’s law firm is at it again! The City of Beverly Hills and three oil companies presently have a law suit against them pending for ignoring cancer causing toxic gases that have been leaking from oil wells drilled on the Beverly Hills school grounds. History: Post World War II Beverly Hills was found too have oil and gas reserves, and the area was lightly drilled. The drilling leases were owned at the time by Getty oil and Standard oil, the Beverly Hills school district collected 25 million dollars in 1973 for the use of the area. More History... Right now there are 18 active wells and 25 abandoned wells on an 8000 sq. ft. property lease held by Venoco. The air around the track and out door basketball facilities was tested and found positive for benzene and n-hexane (both carcinogens) and methane (which is poisonous). These gases are constantly seeping from one of the sites. Litigants: Chevron-Texaco Oil Occidental Petroleum Corp Venoco Inc. of Carpinteria Plaintiffs: Suit was promoted by two students who went to the Beverly Hills High School and who had been infected by the same type of rare cancer. The cancer is called Hodgkins. The chance of contracting this type of cancer is 1 in 100,000. Brockovich has found 20 other cases of Hodgkins lymphoma and 12 cases of nonhodgkin’s at Beverly Hills High.