Bhopal waste disposal: government dithers over finalising contract with German company

Madhya Pradesh government unhappy with clauses in proposed contract

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 12, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Poison, unlimited: India's chemicals industry remains dangerously

India has failed to come up with effective legislations for its chemical industry even 35 years after the Bhopal tragedy

Birth defects remain high in Bhopal gas survivors 35 years after disaster

An unpublished ICMR report found 9 per cent newborns of gas victims had birth defects as against 1.3 per cent newborns of non-victims

‘Handling toxic waste is a matter of science, not administration’

Whether it is the dismantling of toxics laden ship from the US, Oriental Nicety, or the clean up of the 350 tonnes of waste lying at the defunct …

Not learning from Bhopal

Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries

A judgement by a Bhopal court has brought the worst gas tragedy into spotlight. It has galvanized the media and the government into action. A …

The new banana republic

Bhopal protesters knock on Dow Chemical's door in Mumbai

Demand clean up of toxins in soil and water around Union Carbide plant, production of absconding corporation officials before Indian court

No trial incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste in Nagpur

Madhya Pradesh High Court takes cognisance of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Boards objection

Bhopal’s toxic waste raises stink

Bombay High Court stays transfer of Union Carbide waste to Maharashtra

Bhopal gas survivors' Delhi march delivers little

January 31, 2009

New victims

No one is cleaning up

25 years on, thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste is scattered around the Union Carbide factory

A work in progress

Dangerous business

Bhopal victims demonstrate in Delhi ahead of Supreme Court hearing on more compensation

Delhi police and CRPF dispersed the group of women survivors and forced them to leave

Gujarat pollution board washes hands of creating buffer zones around waste treatment facilities

Central Pollution Control Board guidelines, however, state that no construction activity can take place within 500 metre of treatment, storage …

Centre to identify a laboratory to analyse toxic waste from Union Carbide factory

Order follows Maharashtra Pollution Control Board statement that it cannot predict the impact of burning the toxic waste

DRDO unit not fit to handle union carbide waste : MPCB

Incinerator out of order since two years

Clean-up plan for Union Carbide waste in Bhopal raises concern

37 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: High Covid-19 fatality rate shows health impact of victims wasn't 'temporary'

Age-old questions resurface along with new ones in a novel campaign for justice

Subterranean Leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory …

Bhopal gas disaster: Dow Chemical fails to comply with court summons

Activists blame Ministry of Home affairs for not taking the matter seriously