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On This Day: February 14, 1989 Union Carbide Agreed to a $470 Million Settlement for the Bhopal Disaster

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On This Day: February 14, 1989 Union Carbide Agreed to a $470 Million Settlement for the Bhopal Disaster.

On this day, February 14, 1989, Union Carbide, an American chemical corporation, agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government as compensation for the devastating 1984 Bhopal disaster. The settlement was intended to address the widespread suffering caused by one of the worst industrial accidents in history.

The disaster occurred on December 2–3, 1984, when a leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, exposed hundreds of thousands of people to...
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