This is fun: Greenpeace is suing Dow Chemical and two of its PR firms, claiming that they hired private investigators "who stole documents, tapped phones and hacked into computer networks between 1998 and 2000." They have lots of documents!
Eight officials from Union Carbide were found guilty in the deaths of over 15,000 people from a gas leak in Bhopal, India, in 1984. An estimated 600,000 people were affected. They face two years in jail. [BBC, AP]
Dow Chemical will acquire rival specialty chemicals company Rohm & Haas for $18.8 billion, in a deal financed by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority. [Reuters]
