Category: Justice

  • Bhopal Water Pollution Victims Ask Appeals Court to Hold Union Carbide Accountable

    Bhopal Water Pollution Victims Ask Appeals Court to Hold Union Carbide Accountable

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    Rox Carter
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    September 01, 2015, New York, NY Today, lawyers representing communities living near the site of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal Gas Disaster, will argue to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) is responsible for water pollution from the same plant that continues to foul local…

  • Why Bhopal Matters

    Why Bhopal Matters

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    Adrian
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    “We should never lose sight of the fact that Bhopal can happen in the United States.”
 -Al Cholger, an international representative for the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers Union (PACE), speaking in the July, 2003 (Edition of “Labor Notes”) “We are aware that the day we succeed in holding Dow Chemical liable for the…