The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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Environmental toxicity takes toll on kids
Teja Rawela (Fazilka): A large number of children of Teja Rawela and Dona Nanka villages falling in the Jalalabad Assembly segment are exhibiting stunted growth. Young girls are facing premature greying and thinning of hair and the number of such kids is much larger than the normal population distribution.
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Bhopal verdict: Survivors furious, want death penalty
Emotions ran high among relatives and survivors of the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal as they demanded capital punishment after eight senior officials of the Union Carbide were convicted today only of death due to criminal negligence.
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A quarter-century after Bhopal, seven sentenced
Milind Ghatwai More than 25 years after gas spewing from a Bhopal pesticide plant on a December night killed several thousand and left many more affected, a local court today convicted seven former officials of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) after a marathon criminal trial.
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Is justice blind?
LALIT SHASTRI |
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Judgment on the Bhopal Gas Disaster: In the Court of Bhopal, dated 7th June 2010
Final judgement on Bhopal gas disaster delivered 25 years, after the tragedy by Bhopal district court. 8 senior executives of Union Carbide have been convicted and sentenced to 2 years of Jail. But this is too little & too late, say victims and the activists. <br />
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Bhopal tragedy: Convicts get 2 years imprisonment
Twenty six years after the world
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New rule will give respite to Mithi river
Mumbai: Soon, the Mithi river will no longer have to take the city
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McDonalds recalls toxic Shrek glasses
Cadmium has been discovered in the painted design on Shrek-themed drinking glasses being sold nationwide at McDonald
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RTI raises fresh Bhopal doubts
The PMO documents on Dow Chemicals and its liability on Bhopal gathered by Bhopal activists. These have brought to light a letter written in 2006 by Dow Chemicals CEO Andrew Liveris to the then Indian ambassador to the US Ronen Sen, claiming that the Indian government had said that his company is not liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy.
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Assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in and around M/s Union Carbide India Ltd. Bhopal: final report
The final report by NEERI on assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in an around UCIL in Bhopal. Certifies that contamination of soil & groundwater at UCIL premises has nothing to do with the 1984 MIC gas tragedy.<br />