Word: bhopal
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While the early doomsday predictions about Y2K appear to be wildly exaggerated, serious work remains to be done. "It was only one chemical valve being left open that caused the Bhopal disaster," says Joan Mulhern, legislative counsel for Public Citizen. "To the extent that these bills are telling industry not to be prepared, they're sending the wrong message...
Each year the EPA compiles a catalog of the toxic chemicals discharged into the environment. Congress ordered the accounting after a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing thousands of people--and after the company released a smaller quantity of an equally toxic gas from its plant in Institute, W.Va., less than a year later...
...that we should allocate the greatest number of goods to the largest number of people. Capitalism and socialism merely have different theories on how best to achieve that goal, but they never question the goal. The only alternative to the ideology of technology that has given us Siberia and Bhopal, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island is ecology. JORDI ROS Beverly Hills, California...
...River; an effort to protect the pristine Plitvicka Lakes National Park on the border between Serbia and Croatia from the fighting that has ravaged the Balkans; the establishment of a Geneva-based industry council that would help prevent chemical catastrophes like the gas leak that killed 2,000 in Bhopal, India; and an initiative to focus attention on problems that involve the use and disposal of toxic products by the world's military establishments...
This isn't to say that corporate law as a profession has no excesses. Professor of Law Detlev Vagts points to the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal as one of the worst. Hundreds of American lawyers descended on the city in an appalling display of venality...