Union Carbide
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Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical company headquartered in Seadrift, Texas. It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company since 2001. Union Carbide produces chemicals a
A 1922 advertisement for Union Carbide gas lighting. Electric lighting was not yet common in many rural areas of the United States.
Protest in Bhopal, India, 2010
Bhopal disaster
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On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in
Union Carbide
…The business, including Eveready and Energizer alkaline batteries, was sold to Ralston Purina in 1986, following a hostile takeover attempt. After the Bhopal disaster in 1984, Union Carbide was the subject of repeated takeover attempts. In order to pay off its debt, Carbide sold many of its most familiar brands such…
The Bhopal pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited in 1985, a year after the disaster
Tank E610 in 2010. During the decontamination of the plant, the tank was removed from its foundations and set aside.
Memorial to those killed and disabled in Bhopal by Dutch Holocaust survivor Ruth Waterman-Kupferschmidt
Victims of the Bhopal disaster march in September 2006, demanding the extradition of Warren Anderson from the United States.