India seeks additional compensation for 1984 Bhopal disaster

India seeks additional compensation for 1984 Bhopal disaster: "The government of India has filed a petition with that country's Supreme Court on the 26th anniversary of Union Carbide's Bhodal gas disaster, seeking to more than double the compensation in the case to $1.1 billion dollars. The compensation had initially been set at $470 million in a 1989 settlement, but the new petition emphasizes [...]"