It's their own back yard syndrome but they don't give a f**** about what they do in others. As for the senate meeting if the 2 slimy looking bozos we saw on the news were anything to go by then heaven help the rest of the world.
The Bhopal disaster occurred in December 1984. The leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other toxins from the plant resulted in exposure of over 500,000 people.
The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release. But others estimate 16,000+ deaths of which, 8,000 died within the first weeks and 8,000+ have since died from gas-related diseases.
Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tons of toxic chemicals abandoned at the UCIL Bhopal plant continue to leak and pollute the groundwater in the region and affect thousands of residents who depend on it. Union Carbide, now a subsidiary of DOW Jones, dispute whether the chemicals still stored at the site pose any continuing health hazard.
26 years since the tragedy, criminal cases remain pending in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, against Union Carbide, with an Indian arrest warrant also pending against Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster.
Union Carbide’s CEO allegedly knew about a 1982 safety audit of the Bhopal plant, that identified 30 major hazards, which were fixed at the company's identical plant in the US but were not fixed in Bhopal.
In June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former chairman of UCIL, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $2,000 each, the maximum punishment allowed by law.
As for Obama he obviously see's no shame in the way in which one of its companies acted or indeed in the fact that the government did not.