Problems would seem to be mounting for the proposed merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont as a US jury recently awarded $10.5 million in punitive damages against DuPont in a C-8 contamination case. On the 6th […]
Organophosphates are the basis of many nerve agents, which includes insecticides and herbicides, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency lists them as being very highly acutely toxic to bees, wildlife, and humans. Chlorpyrifos is a
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Over the last week Indian newspapers, including the Times of India, have been reporting that work is proposed to start imminently on a memorial to the Bhopal gas tragedy at the very the scene of the
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Update: 27 March 2017. EU gives ‘conditional approval’ to Dow DuPoint merger. While the proposed merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont remains stalled, under investigation by the EU on the grounds of ‘anti-trust’, other concerns have
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BP has agreed to pay enormous fines to settle legal action over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a record fine of $18.7bn to settle legal actions brought by
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Enlist : part Glyphosate, a probable carcinogen, and part 2,4-D a possible carcinogen. Dow Chemical’s new product! The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has just declared IARC2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, known as 2,4-D, to be a
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The Hindustan Times reports that the Madhya Pradesh state government plans to dispose of 346 tonnes of toxic waste, from the abandoned Union Carbide factory, at a Pithampur-based treatment, storage and disposal facility. Whilst, in principle,
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An offer from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to perform a comprehensive assessment of the depth and spread of contaminants in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has been ‘red-flagged’ by the
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In a significant development for the Bhopal Disaster case, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has offered to undertake a full evaluation of the spread of toxic waste at the derelict Union Carbide factory in Bhopal.
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‘The fact of Bhopal’s second disaster is that innocent people, mostly living in extreme poverty, have found themselves poisoned not once, but twice.’ Read our very own Colin Toogood’s article in the December 2014 issue of the
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To mark 30 years since the Bhopal Gas Disaster in December 1984, Social Justice have devoted their December 2014 Issue, entitled Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism, Vol. 41-1-2, to revisiting ‘the
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To mark the 30th anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster in India, the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, and the 10th anniversary of the South Asian tsunami, a series of public activities and events were organised by lecturers
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