It is a phrase that conjures up missed opportunity, even sadness, but Marcus Dupree is at peace with the title of his documentary: The Best That Never Was.
Seven former executives are convicted in the Bhopal disaster, stirring reaction across India. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
India has announced a new financial package for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster as the case shot back to prominence after a court ruling this month.
A new study shows 77 million Bangladeshis are being exposed to water containing arsenic. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
It could be the worst mass poisoning in history. And the terrible irony is that it may all be due to an idealistic push to clean up drinking water for some of the world's poorest people.
India will make "vigorous" efforts to push the United States to extradite the former head of an American chemical company in connection with the 1984 industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, a government minister said Monday.
British media have leapt to the defense of beleaguered BP following attacks by the White House over its handling of the Gulf Coast disaster.
A court in central India ruled Monday that seven top executives and the company they worked for are guilty for their role in the 1984 industrial disaster that killed thousands in Bhopal, India.
A Union Carbide spokesman comments about the Bhopal disaster on the 25th anniversary of the gas leak.
T.R. Chouhan walked solemnly through the rusted remains of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. "I come here frequently," he said. "We used to work here, and now this is the condition of the plant. So it feels really bad."
It was to be a somber memorial, a remembrance of those who perished in a lethal milky fog.
CNN's Mallika Kapur speaks to a Mumbai man who struggles with the deaths of two friends in the attacks a year ago.
Almost a quarter century later, survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disasters are pressing India's authorities to hold a U.S. corporation accountable
Vimlendu is at a rally for the dead, dying and survivors of the Bhopal gas leak as they petition the Indian government.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
The mass culling of poultry continued Monday in India's western state of Maharashtra, two days after three cases of bird flu were found among chickens there.
An "elaborate deception" has led at least two news organizations to report that Dow Chemical had accepted responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, sending the company's stock down temporarily.
People in the Indian city of Bhopal are mourning the victims of a deadly chemical leak in 1984 that killed tens of thousands.
India's Supreme Court has ordered the government to distribute millions of dollars in compensation still due to victims of a 1984 toxic gas leak.
Fortune: Green Is Goodupdated: Mon Mar 31 2003 00:01:00
Not many environmentalists count Warren Buffett among their heroes. But John Passacantando, 41, executive director of Greenpeace USA, doesn't have a typical activist's bio. He majored in economics ...
Sleep trainer Michael Krugman (soundersleep.com) has treated workers at Saatchi & Saatchi, Equitable Life Assurance, the NYPD, and Philip Morris (gee, wonder what keeps them up at night). "Most of ...
Most people barely remember Warren Anderson. And that's probably the way he likes it. Anderson was chairman of Union Carbide in 1984, when a leak at its pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, caused one...
Two years have passed since Union Carbide handed the Indian government $470 ^ million for the survivors of 1984's Bhopal disaster and for the families of the 3,700 who died. But so far less than $5...
ENERGY/Cover Stories 46 THE FUTURE OF BIG OIL The Alaskan oil spill is being compared to Bhopal and Chernobyl. Tragic as the loss of wildlife has been, it's not of that magnitude -- not yet, at lea...
IF THE OIL SPILL proves anything, says Exxon's boss, it's that you need someone in charge who can ''move quickly without a lot of recriminations.'' Criticized for staying out of public view for nea...
The news was grim. Early Monday morning, Dec. 3, 1984, a gas used in the manufacture of pesticides leaked from a storage tank at a Union Carbide chemical plant, forming a lethal white cloud over th...
Melville Straus, 48, has two consuming passions: investing and ballet. Somehow he finds time to be involved with both in a big way. As chairman of New York City's renowned American Ballet Theatre, ...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon Jul 07 1986 00:01:00
U.S. Steel opened contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers of America. The USW has already granted concessions to LTV, National Steel Corp., and Bethlehem. U.S. Steel, however, is stronge...
In which the present writer continues for some reason to propound long-winded interrogatories, the answers to which everybody knows, or if not we are in even bigger trouble than previously postulat...
Fortune: Carbide agonistesupdated: Mon Apr 28 1986 00:01:00
Trouble seems to come in bunches for Union Carbide. The latest setback: a $1.4-million fine by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for alleged violations at Carbide's Institute, West ...
AFTER YEARS of erratic performance, GAF Corp. emerged last year like a reborn boxer -- in fighting trim and restless for a big-name opponent. It found one in huge, seemingly vulnerable Union Carbid...
INSURANCE COMPANIES have more than one way of refusing your business, says Norman S. Wintemute, who buys coverage for BankAmerica: ''They can simply say no. Or they can quote you a fantastically lo...
In the aftermath of a poisonous gas leak at Union Carbide's Bhopal, India, plant, a cloud has lingered over the cause of the accident that killed more than 2,000 (FORTUNE, January 7). A new report ...
THE RISING CLAMOR for legislation forcing chemical companies to disclose potential risks at their plants has the companies in a quandary. They'd rather not have to contend with a stringent new fede...
The tragedy in Bhopal is bound to shake up U.S. laws governing the chemical industry. Congressional hearings are in full cry on nearly every aspect of handling toxic chemicals. The Reagan Administr...
Fortune: Black night in Indiaupdated: Mon Jan 07 1985 00:01:00
In the world's worst industrial disaster, over 2,000 people were reported killed and more than 200,000 injured after poisonous gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and shrouded t...
FOR EDWARD Van Den Ameele, 46, Union Carbide's manager of press relations, and duty officer during the predawn hours of Monday, December 3, the first call came at 4:30 A.M. A reporter from CBS radi...
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