Victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster have announced plans to appeal a recent judgment dismissing claims against the company, Union Carbide, and its former chair. On December 3, 1984, around 40 metric tons of toxic gases leaked from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The official death toll stands at around 3,500, but campaigners estimate the actual number is closer to 25,000, with many people still suffering. Union Carbide is now owned by Dow Chemical. A second circuit U.S. court recently dismissed an effort to hold Dow and former Union Carbide chair Warren Anderson accountable for the disaster.