Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
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) …
Despite vast improvement in legislations for chemical industrial disasters and workers safety three decades after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, there is an urgent need to strengthen institutions, tools of compliance, monitoring and a strict corporate liability regime, says a book on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy: After 30 …
In 1995, India’s Parliament passed the National Environment Tribunal Act. The law was to provide compensation to victims of environmental accidents. It was to ensure special courts quickly decided damage, liability and compensation caused by industrial disasters — not only to people but to the environment also. It was passed …
Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in …
As one enters old Bhopal’s Arif Nagar area, there are two enduring reminders of the city’s toxic legacy that goes back to a fateful winter night three decades ago, when 30 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide factory. Along Berasiya Road, one of the many …
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 …
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has stayed its 2012 earlier order directing transfer of all environment cases to the National Green Tribunal since its formation in 2010. The SC said the directions in the Bhopal gas leak case require reconsideration. In August 2012, the SC, in a 1998 petition filed by …
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 …
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has washed its hands of the clinical drug trials that took place on gas-victims at Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC). Some of the doctors allegedly involved in these trials have resigned from BMHRC in the past few weeks. According to ICMR director …
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 …
Madhya Pradesh government has on Monday agreed to conduct trial run to dispose toxic wastes dumped at Union Carbide factory premises, Bhopal at the TSDF facility operated by Ramky Enviro Engineers at Pithampur. Union government presented a schedule in the Supreme Court and the state government would submit a timeline …
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