Bhopal Gas Disaster

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

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 …

Foul Debris

Forty year old Ganga stays in a slum close to the derelict Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant in Bhopal. She came to the city long after the gas leak. But Ganga shows symptoms associated with victims of the leak, nevertheless

Empowered panchayats make for true liberalisation

a myth actively perpetuated by traditional politicians and a supportive bureauracy is that panchayat bodies are India's lowest ranked implementing agency for government programmes. Thus their status as an institution of self-government, as designated in the Indian c onstitution, remains a distant dream. This is why, when the Plachimada panchayat …

The company s crass

This is arguably the starkest reminder of corporate irresponsibility. In mid-October this year, us congressman Frank Pallone and eight colleagues filed an amicus brief on behalf of the more than 20,000 victims of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical disaster in Bhopal, India. The 23-page brief, to the us Court of …

Poison present

Greenpeace Greenpeace and Bhopal disaster survivors transported toxic waste from the Bhopal disaster site to Dow Chemical Co's largest European operation, Dow Benelux, in the Dutch town of Terneuzen. About 20 activists were arrested after they unloaded 250 kg of the waste contained in seven barrels. The waste was abandoned …

Bearing Dow`s burden

Press release hoax . The Bhopal Gas Disaster: Targeting Dow Chemical . USA Negligence, not sabotage, according to a New Scientist report, caused the 1984 Bhopal disaster, when toxic gases leaked out of a Union Carbide pesticide plant, killing about 5,000 people. Another 15,000 people have died over the years …

The Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal: A Review of Health Effects

The authors have reviewed studies of human health effects that resulted from exposure to methyl isocyanate gas that leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984. The studies were conducted during both the early and late recovery periods. Major organs exposed were the eyes, respiratory tract, and …

Exposure: Portrait of a corporate crime

EXPOSURE: PORTRAIT OF A CORPORATE CRIME Photographs of Bhopal by Raghu Rai . Published by Greenpeace International . August 2002 Photographer Raghu Rai captures the ghastly scenes of the morning after the Bhopal gas disaster. And the plight of the hapless survivors of the world's deadliest industrial catastrophe. Deeply moved …

Serious setback

the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy

No gas mask

distance from the poison-producing plant was not the only deciding factor. Unlike what previous research would have us believe, the adverse health effects resulting from the Bhopal gas tragedy cannot be assessed only on the basis of how near the victim lived to the Union Carbide plant. Several other factors

Personal exposure and long-term health effects in survivors of the Union Carbide Disaster at Bhopal

Nine years after the Bhopal methyl isocyanate disaster, we examined the effects of exposures among a cross-section of current residents and a subset of those with persistent symptoms. We estimated individual exposures by developing exposure indices based on activity, exposure duration, and distance of residence from the plant. Original Source

The Bhopal gas tragedy 1984 to? The evasion of corporate responsibility

This paper describes the inadequacies in the response of the Union Carbide Corporation to the accidental release of the highly toxic gas, methyl isocyanate, from its plant in Bhopal, India in 1984. Over 20,000 people are estimated to have died from exposure to this gas since 1984, with some 120,000 …

Toxic future

bhopal gas victims are still facing the backlash of a tragedy that happened 17 years ago. Toxic chemicals released from the Union Carbide factory have not just seeped into the soil and groundwater but now traces of these toxins are being found in mother's milk too. A fact-finding mission (FFM) …

Stifling secret

What were the ingredients of the deadly cocktail that tank no. 610 at Union Carbide India Limited's (ucil) Bhopal plant spewed on December 3-4, 1984? So potent was the mix that 3000 lives were lost then. The toll is now 11,000 and mounting. Yet the victims and medical fraternity are …

Federal appeals court decision reinstating parts of suit against Union Carbide

This appeal presents the latest of many legal battles stemming from perhaps history's worst industrial catastrophe: the 1984 toxic gas disaster at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Earlier actions included scores of individual and class-action complaints filed in federal courts throughout the United States and consolidated in the United …

Wronged again

the Bhopal gas tragedy victims suffered yet another setback when the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust refused to entertain their compensation claims without a copy of the judgement given by the judiciary. The hospital trust, funded by the us multinational Union Carbide Corporation, was set up by the Supreme Court as …

Payback time

on the basis of a fresh petition filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan and Bhopal Group for Information and Action, the Supreme Court has ordered that compensation should be paid to some of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. As per the notification dated March 2, …

Bhopal revisited

as preparations for yet another anniversary to mark the Bhopal gas tragedy got underway, a rude shock awaited the victims. The Madhya Pradesh government was reportedly planning to close the down the Gas Relief and Rehabilitation department. Sixteen years ago, a leak of the deadly methyl isocyanate from the Union …

A change in scene

in a dramatic move, victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy filed a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corporation (ucc), its former chief executive officer (ceo) Warren Anderson and Praxair Incorporated, a ucc-owned subsidiary that still conducts business in India. The suit, filed on November 15 in New York's southern district …

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