The Nation - News from Jan. 30, 1985

Three residents of Institute, W.Va., where Union Carbide Corp. operates a pesticide plant, filed a $3-billion federal class-action lawsuit against the company, contending that it knowingly allowed leaks of the toxic chemical methyl isocyanate. A leak of the chemical from a Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, Dec. 3 killed more than 2,000 persons and injured thousands of others. The Environmental Protection Agency said last week that the company had failed to report 28 leaks from the Institute plant in the last five years.