CSE marks 30 years of Bhopal, organises Public Meeting, releases new book
Bhopal 2.0 requires government to clean the toxic waste lying in the factory and fix liability. The lesson is that post-Bhopal, India has laws for hazardous waste management and industrial disasters, but no compliance. Which is why we have scores of mini-Bhopals every year
CSE marks 30 years of Bhopal, organises Public Meeting, releases new book
Bhopal 2.0 requires government to clean the toxic waste lying in the factory and fix liability. The lesson is that post-Bhopal, India has laws for hazardous waste management and industrial disasters, but no compliance. Which is why we have scores of mini-Bhopals every year
The tip of the toxic iceberg in Bhopal
Media Briefing Workshop: Environmental remediation in and around the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal
CSE presents action plan, prepared in consultation with experts from across the country, to clean the site
SC Demands Explanation from CBI
A five judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice HS Kapadia, on April 13, began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five judge bench questioned the CBI for approaching the court after a gap of 16 years and not filing a review petition during these years.
Bhopal's Curative Petition Dismissed
Lab to be chosen for Bhopal waste
The Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Centre to identify a laboratory in the country to analyse the waste from Union Carbide and prepare an environmental impact assessment on the impact of burning it in Nagpur.
Analysis of Soil and Groundwater Samples in Bhopal, IITR, 2013
CPCB,New Delhi funded this project to IITR, Lucknow vide letter No. A-14011/1/2011- Mon/S87 dated 13/10/2011to carry out the analysis of ground water, soil and sub-soil samples from UCIL Bhopal premises and in the nearby vicinity.
Restore your lakes and ponds, augment sewage treatment: CSE suggests to Madhya Pradesh
New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) releases Excreta Matters, its 71-city study of how Indian urban centres manage their water and sewage
CSE to release its report on water and sewage management in Indian cities - including Bhopal and other cities of MP
Date: 6th July, 2012 Venue: Hotel Lakeview Ashok, Shamla Hills CSE invites you to the official release of the report in Bhopal. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, chief minister, Madhya Pradesh will do the honours. Sunita Narain, director general of CSE, will make a presentation. The release would be followed by a panel discussion involving some of the key policy makers and civil society representatives from the city (see details below). Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan will officially unveil the report
Whose toxic waste is it anyway?
New Delhi, July 20, 2011: Oliver Twist would feel for the 350 million tonnes of toxic chemicals still sitting inside the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. In 1984, an accident at the chemical company’s plant spewed deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air, immediately killing 3,500 people. Residents subsequently suffered from deadly cancers and generations of children continue to be born with horrendous birth defects. Read More
Bhopal's Curative Petition Dismissed
SC Demands Explanation from CBI
A five judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice HS Kapadia, on April 13, began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five judge bench questioned the CBI for approaching the court after a gap of 16 years and not filing a review petition during these years.
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