Faculty at West Virginia State University have voted to urge Bayer CropScience to remove the stockpile of deadly methyl isocyanate from the company's Institute plant.
The plant, adjacent to State's campus, stores more than 200,000 pounds of MIC, the chemical that killed thousands of people in a 1984 leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India.
In recent weeks, the Bayer facility has come under renewed scrutiny, after federal investigators reported the August 2008 explosion that killed two plant workers could easily have damaged or destroyed one of the MIC tanks.
Last week, West Virginia State's faculty unanimously approved a resolution on the MIC issue similar to one approved about a week earlier by the university's faculty senate.
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