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• “What’s holding back Bhopal water report?”

  Central Pollution Control Board accused of failure to keep the June 4 deadline Environmentalists have accused the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of failure to keep the June 4 deadline for filing a report on groundwater contamination caused by Dow Chemical Company’s Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal, despite its assurances and the need for compliance with the Supreme Court Orders dated March 28 and April 19, 2012.(In one of the world’s industrial catastrophes, thousands of people died and were injured following the leak of toxic methyl isocyanate at the UCIL pesticide plant on the night of December 2-3, 1984.)

  • 17/07/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal (D)
    • Groundwater Pollution
    • Union Carbide
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Pesticide Industry
    • Supreme Court
    • Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
    • Environmentalists
    • Health Effects
    • Water Pollution
    • Madhya Pradesh

• Phase-I of Bhopal’s toxic removal to begin soon

  The visible part of the waste to go to Germany first, buried part in next phase The 350 tonnes of toxic waste dumped on the premises of the erstwhile Union Carbide factory in Bhopal would be flown to Germany to be incinerated, either there or in any other part of Europe in line with the proposal of GIZ, the German state agency. Yesterday’s cabinet approval of the proposal marks a milestone in the nearly three-decade wait to clean the 32-acre site housing remnants of the toxic pesticides left by the company after the industrial disaster there in end-1984.

  • 05/07/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal (D)
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Union Carbide
    • Germany
    • Pesticides
    • Waste Disposal
    • National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
    • Landfill
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Madhya Pradesh

• Cabinet clears Rs. 25-crore plan to airlift Bhopal waste

  Almost three decades after deadly gases spewed out of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the Union Cabinet has finally approved the proposal to airlift 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the defunct pesticide factory site to Germany for safe disposal. Tuesday's Cabinet decision comes after attempts to dispose of the waste in several Indian plants were vociferously opposed by nearby residents. The Central government will pay Rs. 25 lakh to German firm GIZ to remove the waste.

  • 04/07/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal (D)
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Union Carbide
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Germany
    • Waste Disposal
    • Supreme Court
    • Groundwater Pollution
    • National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
    • Industrial Pollution
    • Industrial Waste
    • Chemical Industry
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Madhya Pradesh

• Centre pulled up over Bhopal waste

  The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for not being serious about cleaning up the toxic waste lying around for the past 28 years at the defunct Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. At a special hearing by the Court's Vacation Bench on Monday, the Judges asked if the Government's attitude stemmed from the fact that the victims were poor. “You are not sure even after 28 years. It is because the people affected, and living in Bhopal, are poor. It is a failure on your part to deal with this,” said the Bench, consisting of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhyay.

  • 30/05/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal (D)
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Union Carbide
    • Supreme Court
    • Waste Disposal
    • Dhar (D)
    • Health Effects
    • Chemical Industry
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Madhya Pradesh

• Hospital for gas-hit refuses free dialysis to victim

  Bhopal: Aqueel Ahmed (29), a gas victim and resident of Govindpura, has damaged kidneys and requires dialysis thrice a week. He claimed the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), which is supposed to provide medical treatment free of cost to gas victims, has refused medication.

  • 22/06/2010

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Health Effects
    • Health
    • People
    • Health Care
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Union Carbide
    • Times Of India (New Delhi)
    • Toxic Wastes

• 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index report

  <p>CSE with global rank of 17^th is the top-most environmental think tanks amongst developing countries after the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).</p>

  • 22/01/2015

  • Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
  • • Environment
    • NGO
    • India
    • Global
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
    • Energy
    • Economy
    • Education
    • Health
    • Science And Technology
    • Governance
    • Advocacy
    • Media
    • Internet

• The Yes Men: 'Take to the streets'

  Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (not their real names) are the frontmen for the Yes Men. They got together to set up parody websites such as www.gwbush.com and graduated to huge anti-corporate, culture-jamming stunts targeting giants such as ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical. Their latest film, The Yes Men Fix the World, is showing now all over the UK and in the US later in October.

  • 15/08/2009

  • New Scientist
  • • Chemical Industry
    • Climate Change
    • WTO
    • Drug Industry
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Industry
    • Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
    • Research
    • Cinema
    • Web
    • Personalities
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Globalisation

• Payback time

  A Supreme Court ruling ensures compensation to a few Bhopal gas victims

  • 30/03/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Compensation
    • Health Care
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Legislation
    • Supreme Court

• Jairam writes to P.C. over german offer

  After the Supreme Court’s nod to the authorities on April 4 to go ahead with a test incineration of the toxic waste of Bhopal’s abandoned Union Carbide factory at Pithampur near Indore, there is new twist to the toxic waste disposal issue as Union minister for rural development, drinking water and sanitation Jairam Ramesh has written a fresh letter to home minister and chairman, group of ministers on Bhopal, Mr P. Chidamabaram asking that the proposal by GIZ, a German government agency, for incinerating the toxic waste at Hamburg in Germany should be considered.

  • 25/04/2012

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Indore (D)
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Union Carbide
    • Waste Disposal
    • Germany
    • Ministry Of Rural Development
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Supreme Court
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Madhya Pradesh

• US court reinstates Bhopal gas case

  BY LALIT K. JHA NEW YORK The lawsuit was filed in 2004 by a group of people who live in the vicin- ity of the pesticide plant in Bhopal A New York court has reinstated a case filed against Union Carbide by residents of Bhopal who claim to have suffered serious health problems due to a gas leak from the company

  • 05/11/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health Effects
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Industry
    • Union Carbide
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Bhopal (T)

• Bhopal waste to be disposed of at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh

  Following strong protests by the Maharashtra government, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed that hazardous waste at Bhopal's Union Carbide chemical plant, now owned by Dow Chemicals, will be incinerated at a facility at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh. Replying to a calling attention motion in the Assembly on Monday, Maharashtra Environment Minister Sanjay Devtale said the State government had opposed the burning of waste at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) facility near Nagpur.

  • 20/03/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Union Carbide
    • Chemical Industry
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Nagpur (D)
    • Waste Disposal
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • High Court
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Health Effects
    • Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
    • Supreme Court
    • Waste Management
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Maharashtra
• 

  Unchecked

  Industry flouts weak regulations at will

  • 14/12/2003

  • • Groundwater Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Chemical Industry
    • Health Care
    • Medical Research
    • Child Health
    • Mercury
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Chemical Leakages
    • Union Carbide
    • Governance
    • NGO
    • India

• Chemical Industry, Officials To Work For More Safety

  Chemicals producers and governments agreed on Friday to step up efforts to push for greater safety in chemicals from lead in paint to microscopic substances. But non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said unless the industry and governments come up with more money, agreed targets for cleaning up chemicals by 2020 were unlikely to be met.

  • 18/05/2009

  • Planet Ark (Australia)
  • • Environment
    • Bhopal
    • Organic Pollutants
    • Health Effects
    • Chemical Industry
    • Waste Conversion
    • Electronic Waste
    • Hazardous Products
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • UNEP
    • NGO
    • India
    • Toxic Wastes

• 25 yrs later, study on Bhopal fallout

  ICMR To Look Into Effects After 25,000 Fall Prey To Gas Leak-Related Ailments Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Indian scientists are all set to take a relook at one of the country

  • 06/03/2009

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Health Effects
    • Industrial Pollution
    • Hazardous Waste
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Union Carbide
    • Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)
    • Bhopal (D)
• 

  Sick berth

  The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long term treatment of gas victims

  • 30/05/2006

  • • Disaster Management
    • Rehabilitation
    • Health Care
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Finance
    • Supreme Court

• Acute oral toxicity studies of samples of Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant Site at Bhopal in rats

  This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to the acute toxicity, if any of siz samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (nor Napthol tar), Reactor residue, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant Site at Bhopal'.

  • 01/10/2008

  • Defence Research and Development Establishment
  • • Bhopal
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Toxicity Studies
    • Union Carbide
    • India
    • Toxic Wastes

• Strategies and policies deteriorate occupational health situation in India: A review based on social determinant framework

  Overwhelming evidence shows that hazardous work, working conditions, and environment fail to maintain homeostasis results in death or severe disability. Up to the 1980s, governments did not pay major attention to occupational health in developing countries, including India. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy, in 1984, was the turning point in the history of health and safety in India.

  • 01/09/2009

  • Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • • Health
    • Health Policy
    • Occupational Health
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Trade Unions
    • India

• International Campaign for justice in Bhopal

  Warren Anderson, Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation at the time of the 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal is summoned along with UCC to appear before a court in Bhopal to face criminal charges of culpable homicide. Since 1992 he and the corporation have been refusing to appear and have been declared "absconders from justice".

  • 01/01/2007

  • Networking and Advocacy
  • • Environment
    • Health Effects
    • Rehabilitation
    • Compensation
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Poverty
    • Union Carbide
    • Government Of India (GOI)
    • NGO
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Groundwater Pollution

• Cancer cases tripled in Bhopal, ICMR study reveals

  Cancer cases in the State capital that saw world's worst industrial disasters have more than tripled among men and more than doubled among women between 1988 and 2007. A 19-year-long study, conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ACMR), has found that overall, cancer in men in all sites increased by 3.4 times while in women, the increase was 2.5 times. Significantly, the study t

  • 28/02/2011

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)
    • Cancer
    • Methyl Isocyanate (MIC)
    • Madhya Pradesh

• Down with diesel

  The screaming headline in a box in a national daily, Government causing a Bhopal gas tragedy everyday' last month said it all. We are informed that the sputum of 94 per cent to 96 per cent of

  • 07/06/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Vehicular Pollution