The name of American businessman and ex-CEO of Union Carbide Warren Anderson who died in Sep, 2014 is associated with the industrial disaster of which city?
"initial disaster. Zafar tells how the Kampani refuses to recognize the court's decision to proceed with criminal charges against American executives in India. Finally at the end of this first court date, they are able to get the court to review the assets of the Kampani in an effort to bring the people responsible to justice. The court case depicted in the novel is rooted in the reality of the criminal cases surrounding the Bhopal disaster. The Indian Supreme Court was quick to bring criminal charges against the CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson. Following the disaster, Anderson traveled to"
"disabled, maimed, or suffering from serious illness, making it one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Union Carbide was sued by the Government of India and agreed to an out-of-court settlement of US$470 million in 1989. The plant site has not yet been cleaned up. Warren Anderson, CEO at the time of the disaster, and Carbide refused to answer to homicide charges and remained fugitives from India's courts. The U.S. denied several extradition requests. Anderson died on 29 September 2014 in Florida. Seven Indian employees of Union Carbide were convicted of criminal negligence in 2010 and fined $2,000 each. In"
"arrest warrant issued for Warren Anderson, the former Union Carbide chief executive. Al Jazeera's Abid Ali asked ""Is BP bashing getting out of hand?"" in regards to new calls from US legislators over BP's alleged involvement in the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from Scotland to Libya. Al Jazeera also suggested Obama should urge US companies to cough up for their environmental disasters globally, starting with Chevron, which is on the hook for $27 billion, for dumping 56 billion litres of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest; Chevron claims it's done its bit and the rest is up Petro Ecuador."
"18, 1980, following a period of heavy tremors and eruptions, the northeast face of Mount St. Helens exploded outward, destroying a large part of the top of the volcano. This eruption flattened the forests for many miles, killed 57 people, flooded the Columbia River and its tributaries with ash and mud and blanketed large parts of Washington in ash, making day look like night. Washington is well known for several prominent companies, the most notable of which are Microsoft, Amazon.com, Boeing, Nordstrom, Bon Marche, Costco, and Starbucks. Monopolies have a long history in the state as Bill Boeing's namesake company"
"“Wandering Ecologies.” Charles Morris Anderson Charles Morris Anderson (born 1957) is a landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Principal of the Phoenix-based landscape architecture firm WERK.us, a continuation of his practice of the Seattle-based firm Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture. Anderson is recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects for combining nature, community needs, and art into his designs, emphasizing sustainability, indigenous plants and urban ecology. Anderson's influences and contemporaries include Peter Walker, affiliated with the team involved in the World Trade Center Memorial project; Richard Haag, famous for his Gas Works Park project in"
"southern Pennsylvania. Net production of the sold assets was 57,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in December 2014. In 2014, the company also sold additional midstream assets for $520 million. In September 2015, the company announced layoffs of hundreds of people in Oklahoma City. On March 2, 2016, former CEO and co-founder Aubrey McClendon died in a single-occupant single-vehicle crash when he drove his vehicle straight into a concrete bridge embankment in Oklahoma City. It occurred the day after a United States Department of Justice federal grand jury indicted McClendon for violating antitrust laws during his leadership at Chesapeake."
"Charles Morris Anderson Charles Morris Anderson (born 1957) is a landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Principal of the Phoenix-based landscape architecture firm WERK.us, a continuation of his practice of the Seattle-based firm Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture. Anderson is recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects for combining nature, community needs, and art into his designs, emphasizing sustainability, indigenous plants and urban ecology. Anderson's influences and contemporaries include Peter Walker, affiliated with the team involved in the World Trade Center Memorial project; Richard Haag, famous for his Gas Works Park project in Seattle; and"
"John Anderson (Cal Scale) John Schow Anderson (8 August 1925 Alameda County, California – 6 November 2000 Hayward, California) was a design engineer and entrepreneur in the model railroading industry. Anderson was one of three co-founders of Associated Brass Products, Inc., a California corporation based in Pinedale, Fresno County, California. Anderson attended schools in Berkeley, California. Upon graduation (age 18), he was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent into combat during World War II. He served in Special Forces under General Bernard Montgomery, behind the lines and in British uniform. He was eventually captured by the Germans. They cured"
"of Union Carbide, their refusal to clean up the Bhopal site, plus their direct responsibility for groundwater poisoning incidents in Morrisonville, Louisiana and the Tittabawassee River in Michigan. Their much-publicised water filtration plants in India have failed because the local population cannot afford to replace the expensive high-tech filters. The Dow Live Earth Run for Water was hosted by about 200 cities around the world, including: Amsterdam, Atlanta, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cape Town, Chicago, Chongqing, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Jimbaran, Karachi, Lima, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mexico City, Minneapolis, Monterrey, Montreal, New York City, Rio de"
"as the city of South Boston. Voters re-elected Anderson to the Virginia Senate several times before he announced his upcoming retirement in 1991. He was succeeded by fellow Democrat Louise Lucas, who defeated Republican Frank L. Ruff Jr. in the general election to become the first African American female senator in Virginia. Anderson also helped pass a Uranium mining moratorium in the Virginia General Assembly halting plans to excavate over 100 million pounds of uranium in Pittsylvania County. This moratorium still stands today, and is the bulwark of the anti-mining resistance within the state of Virginia. Anderson died in 2000,"
"Anderson served as a director for and head of the legal committee of Turbodyne Technologies Inc. (TRBD) in Carpinteria, California. In his later years, he was regularly called upon to act as a commentator on Minnesota politics for local stations, such as KSTP-TV. Anderson married Mary Christine McKee of Bemidji, Minnesota, in 1963. They had three children: Amy, Elizabeth, and Brett. They divorced in 1990. In 1975, Anderson was honored by two of the Swedish District lodges of the Vasa Order of America and selected as Swedish-American of the Year. He died on July 17, 2016, of complications of Alzheimer's"
"the decline of crude oil prices, the number of active rigs has dropped to 87 as of March, 2018. Union Pacific is a train company based in the area of San Antonio, Texas. Between 2004 and 2007 there were 21 major derailments, which resulted in six deaths and multiple hospitalizations. One of these crashes led to the release of chlorine gas and anhydrous ammonia near San Antonio. The released chlorine gas and anhydrous ammonia fanned out to a 10-miles radius which resulted in the hospitalization of over 50 people. SWU was concerned with these accidents, as well as the railway's"
"demand the setting up of a Special Commission which would monitor and provide medical care, rehabilitation to the victims of the gas leak, environmental cleanup and ensure safe drinking water for the city. Furthermore the activists are also demanding that the Ministry of Chemicals file for claims against Dow Chemical in MP high court with regards to the toxic cleanup of the affected area, the Govt. of India move for extradition of Warren Anderson (the CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster), revoke approval given to Reliance for purchase of Union Carbide's Unipol technology which is intellectual"
"and subsequent appeal denied. Anderson died in 2014. In 2018, ""The Atlantic"" called it the ""world’s worst industrial disaster."" Some data about the health effects are still not available. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) was forbidden to publish health effect data until 1994. A total of 36 wards were marked by the authorities as being ""gas affected,"" affecting a population of 520,000. Of these, 200,000 were below 15 years of age, and 3,000 were pregnant women. The official immediate death toll was 2,259, and in 1991, 3,928 deaths had been officially certified. Ingrid Eckerman estimated 8,000 died within"
"Leonardo, New Jersey Leonardo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 2,757. The ZIP code for Leonardo is 07737. Leonardo is named for Henry and James Leonard, the first ironmasters of New Jersey. Leonardo is known as the site of the only casualties of the US Nike Missile program. On May 22, 1958, an Ajax missile exploded at the Nike missile base in Leonardo, killing six soldiers and four civilians. Since the Project Nike shutdown in 1974, the"
"(Frank P. Dunn), clothes presser (H. Donald Forse), ""Irish Mail"" handcars (Hugh Hill), flower car for funeral homes (Francis M. McClain, automatic gearshift (Von D. Polhemus)), Sisson choke (Glenn Sisson), and the vulcanizing process to retread tires (Charles E. Miller). Like most other industrial cities in Indiana and the Rust Belt as a whole, Anderson suffered tremendously from deindustrialization in the 1970s and 1980s. For example, nearly 22,000 people were employed by General Motors in the 1970s; by 2006 this had declined to less than 2,600. Anderson has since struggled with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Anderson is located"
"military personnel and some U.S. government civilians who die overseas. Since the mid-2000s, Delaware has seen the departure of the state's automotive manufacturing industry (General Motors Wilmington Assembly and Chrysler Newark Assembly), the corporate buyout of a major bank holding company (MBNA), the departure of the state's steel industry (Evraz Claymont Steel), the bankruptcy of a fiber mill (National Vulcanized Fibre), and the diminishing presence of Astra Zeneca in Wilmington. In late 2015, DuPont announced that 1,700 employees, nearly a third of its footprint in Delaware, would be laid off in early 2016. The merger of E.I. du Pont de"
"in 2010 aged 24, from carbon monoxide poisoning. Since 2008, he has been married to Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen, an organization that pioneered social impact investing. Chris Anderson (entrepreneur) Chris Anderson (born 1957) is the head of TED, a nonprofit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing. Anderson was born in Pakistan in 1957. His father was ""an eye surgeon and evangelical Christian"", and ran a mobile hospital in rural Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. He has two sisters, and is the middle child. He"
"supported Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. Anderson died of a heart attack in his home, survived by his second wife, daughter, sons and grandchildren. He was buried at Hollywood Cemetery, as were his parents and brother. His son Allen Scott Andrews and Marvin Prescott Bush (brother of President George W. Bush) founded Winston Capital Management of Washington, D.C. The University of Virginia has posted online a video of a speech this Andrews delivered in Bedford, Virginia on September 6, 1968. T. Coleman Andrews, Jr. Thomas Coleman Andrews, Jr. (February 15, 1925 – April 16, 1989) was an American businessman and"
"poisoned thousands more. The plant was jointly owned by Union Carbide Corporation, now Dow Chemicals, and the Indian government, and run by local Indian management. Burson-Marsteller consultants were brought in by Union Carbide to organize communications following the leak and provide advice to Union Carbide executives. Specifically, the company set up an information center to provide information to the media and help to transmit news from the remote location to newspaper, TV and radio outlets, and facilitate daily press conferences that reported on steps taken following the accident. Under advice from Burson-Marsteller's consultants and corporate lawyers, Union Carbide CEO Warren"
"joining gangs. Aurora had 7 murders in 2016. Like other large Midwestern cities that once relied on manufacturing as an economic basis, Aurora has a large number of abandoned buildings and vacant lots, especially in older sections of the city. Efforts are ongoing to rehabilitate these areas. Environmentally, Aurora has long dealt with pollution of the Fox River. The river was heavily polluted up until the 1970s by factories that had lined the river for over a century. Cleanup efforts have been successful with the help of state grants and volunteer efforts. On September 26, 2014, a fire at an"
"resided in Menlo Park, California. Anderson died on February 7, 2018. Harry W. Anderson Harry W. Anderson, also known as Hunk Anderson, (October 5, 1922 – February 7, 2018) was an American businessman, art collector and philanthropist. He was the co-founder of Saga Foods Co., a food company for college dormitories. With his wife, he donated works of art to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Anderson was born on October 5, 1922 in Corning, New York. He was a first-generation American, as his"
"reason for the lone railroad line that runs through the city. Hanson Cement acquired Kaiser Cement for $200 million in 1986. The cement company was renamed Hanson Permanente Cement in 1999. At the time of sale, Kaiser Cement was the 5th largest producer of cement in the entire United States. Hanson Permanente Cement filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the US Bankruptcy Court in 2016. The bankruptcy is related to more than 14,000 injury lawsuits. The previous year Hanson Permanente Cement was ordered to spend $5 million to install an advanced wastewater treatment plant along with $2.55 million in civil"
"Baldwin) was named after the town, and several of the characters resided and/or worked in Leonardo. The video store is now closed and only used for storage. Leonardo, New Jersey Leonardo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP's population was 2,757. The ZIP code for Leonardo is 07737. Leonardo is named for Henry and James Leonard, the first ironmasters of New Jersey. Leonardo is known as the site of the only casualties of the US Nike Missile program. On May"
"to support global warming because America's competing countries will suffer while America only bears minor side effects. On December 3, 2004, the twentieth anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, Andy Bichlbaum appeared on BBC World as ""Jude Finisterra"", a Dow Chemical spokesman. Dow is the owner of Union Carbide, the company responsible for the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India on December 3, 1984. An estimated 3,800 people died immediately from the hazardous chemicals and thousands more were killed by the plume from the UCC plant during the next few days. The Indian government reported that more than half a million people"
"claimed responsibility. No one had been prosecuted for the bombing as of April 17, 2013. Among the victims who died was a young banker, Frank Connor (33), who had worked his way up over 15 years from clerk to assistant vice president at Morgan Guaranty Trust. Connor left behind his wife and two sons. A second New York worker was Harold H. Sherburne (66), whose career on Wall Street spanned four decades. Two executives, James Gezork (32), of Wilmington, Delaware, and Alejandro Berger (28), who worked for a Philadelphia-based chemical company, had traveled to New York for business meetings. Sherburne,"
"total cost to AT&T shareholders of $8 billion. Anderson attributed the failure of the merger to an arrogant attitude by AT&T which resulted in the loss of 90% of NCR’s senior officers and mid-managers which led to the loss of long-time customers. After retirement from NCR, Anderson served on various stock exchange boards of directors as well as boards of non-profit organizations. William S. Anderson William Summers Anderson (born March 29, 1919) was president and chairman of the National Cash Register Corp (NCR) from 1972 to 1984. Anderson was born in 1919 in Wuhan in Central China and went to"
"in Sherbrooke, QC, and was registered with Revenue Québec on February 14, 2014. The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway , itself a product of the 2002 Iron Road Railways bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy in the United States and Canada on August 7, 2013, following the fiery Lac-Mégantic derailment, in which a runaway crude oil train killed forty-seven people and caused an estimated $200 million in property damage to downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The company received protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code and under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act in Canada to oversee the sale of assets. In December"
"and a $1.1 million grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation for infrastructure improvements near the plant. Scott Eells, the chief operating officer for Cook Group, has said that the factory will eventually be , with more than 300 employees. Bill Cook had previously announced he was buying and renovating several old Canton buildings, including the 1883 Randolph Building on the town square. November 16, 2016, A gas explosion killed an Ameren worker who was fixing a gas leak, sent 12 to the local hospital, and demolished an adjacent building on 1st Avenue that was attached to the Opera House."
"Harry W. Anderson Harry W. Anderson, also known as Hunk Anderson, (October 5, 1922 – February 7, 2018) was an American businessman, art collector and philanthropist. He was the co-founder of Saga Foods Co., a food company for college dormitories. With his wife, he donated works of art to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Anderson was born on October 5, 1922 in Corning, New York. He was a first-generation American, as his father was born in Sweden and his mother in Norway. Anderson"
"as one drives the QEW Skyway bridge, is an industrial wasteland; U.S. Steel-owned Stelco announced in the autumn of 2013 that it would close in 2014, with the loss of 875 jobs. The move flummoxed a union representative, who seemed puzzled why a plant with capacity of 2 million tons per annum would be shut while Canada imported 8 million tons of steel the year before. Algoma Steel maintains a plant in Sault Ste Marie. Toronto, the capital of Ontario, is the centre of Canada's financial services and banking industry. Neighbouring cities are home to product distribution, IT centres, and"
"owner of Union Carbide, whose neglected, dilapidated and undermanned chemical plant in the city of Bhopal leaked 27 tonnes of poisonous gas on the night of 3 December 1984, killing up to 8,000 people and injuring upwards of half a million. Around 22,000 people have died as a result of injuries sustained on ""that night"", and more than 100,000 remain chronically ill; the abandoned, derelict factory continues to leach toxic chemicals into the groundwater, poisoning wells. Apart from his novel, ""Animal's People"" (a fictionalised account of the aftermath of the disaster), Sinha has given many interviews and written several articles"
"and subsequently executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001. The economy of Oklahoma City, once just a regional power center of government and energy exploration, has since diversified to include the sectors of information technology, services, health services, and administration. The city is headquarters to two Fortune 500 companies: Chesapeake Energy and Devon Energy, as well as being home to Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, which is ranked thirteenth on Forbes' list of private companies. As of July 2014, the Top 15 employers in the city were: Other major corporations with a large presence (over 1000 employees) in"