Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
BHOPAL: NGOs working for the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster alleged violating of guidelines and directives of the Supreme Court during on-going incineration of 10 MT toxic waste carried from abandoned Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant to Pithampur (Dhar district). "The process of incineration endangering lives and health …
BHOPAL: Trial run to incinerate toxic waste from the defunct factory of Union Carbide at Bhopal will take place in the presence of a third party monitor. A directive in this regard has been issued by Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change as Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) …
For years Union Carb-ide had been dumping chemicals and wastes around the factory sites and these have leaked into the soil and contaminated the drinking water. Even after 30 years of the world’s worst industrial tragedy in which Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas and other chemicals leaked from the Union Carbide …
Bhopal gas leak victims, demanded immediate scientific assessment of environmental pollution caused by the tragedy three decades back on Sunday. Social activist Satinath Sarangi, who has been working for the victims, says that a scientific assessment of air, water and ground quality should be done to address the situation. "What …
New York: Victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have filed an appeal in a higher court here contesting a lower court's decision that Union Carbide Corporation cannot be sued for the ongoing contamination from the chemical plant. The appeal has been filed in the US Court of Appeals for …
A group of survivors of the 2004 Bhopal gas tragedy and people living in the areas near the abandoned Union Carbide factory held a protest outside the residence of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister here on Thursday demanding adequate compensation and cleaning up of the factory site. Some protesters resorted …
Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) has confiscated Rs 3 lakh bank guarantee furnished by Ramky Enviro Engineers who run TDSF facility in Pithampur for failing to install multi effect evaporator (which prevent local soil and ground water contamination). The same facility has been identified by government to carry of …
Five organisatons, which are working for the rights of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, on Monday demanded the Chief Minister’s intervention to ensure adequate compensation for all the victims of the Union Carbide mishap. The organisations said that in view of the upcoming hearing of the curative petitions …
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp (UCC) have released new evidence to show its "direct role in designing and building the pesticide plant in Bhopal" where the 1984 gas disaster killed thousands. Union Carbide, now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, refuses to clean up the site claiming that its …
Reacting to developments taking place in US court regarding new 'evidence' on carbide plant, the non-government organizations working for the welfare of Bhopal gas tragedy victims have expressed hope that Madhya Pradesh government would use this opportunity to expedite clean up process at abandoned Union Carbide site. Activist Rachna Dhingra …
Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on disposal of toxic waste of Union Carbide factory at Bhopal, Srikant Kumar Jena, the minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers stated that the matter of providing oversight and support to all remediation actions, including disposal of toxic waste lying in around the …
Local activists in Pithampur, have expressed serious concern over state government's move to incinerate toxic waste from Union Carbide factory, Bhopal at the Pithampur-based TSDF facility of Ramky Enviro group. They have threatened to intensify their stir against the government decision. Lok Maitri, a local NGO, that had been opposing …
Pharmaceutical companies Quintiles and Sanofi have failed to follow norms while conducting clinical trials of their new drugs on Bhopal gas leak survivors, the health ministry informed the Supreme Court. During hearings on alleged flouting of norms by pharmaceutical majors in conducting clinical trials on humans, the court had ordered …
About Rs 4 crore earmarked for safe disposal of toxic waste lying at Union Carbide site in Bhopal was not utilised by Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB), an audit report has said. The state government has allocated Rs 2 crore during 2009-10 to the MPPCB for common treatment facility …
It was on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, that a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation's pesticide plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital killed and maimed thousands of people. Nearly three decades later, victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are still fighting for justice. The victims have …
The second-, third-generation survivors continue to suffer the effects of the toxic leak Survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy this week held a sit-in at the city’s Lower Lake to mark the incident’s 19th anniversary.NGO Chingari provides the second- and third-generation children with special education and therapy. These children, who …
Just days before the 29th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, news came last Friday that no hearing took place at the Supreme Court on a curative petition filed by the central government to rectify the flawed settlement of 1989, and no further date had been fixed. The …
Warsaw: Sensing that government alone won’t be able to usher in climate change breakthroughs, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first-of-its kindplatform, where chief executives of major MNCs will join top government officials to share solutions, commitments and plans towards feasible action at the ongoing green talks which …
WARSAW: Sensing that government alone won't be able to usher in climate change breakthroughs, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first-of-its kind-platform, where chief executives of major MNCs will join top government officials to share solutions, commitments and plans towards feasible action at the ongoing green talks which …
