A West Virginia chemical plant where two workers were killed in an explosion last year said...that it would substantially cut production of a toxic chemical...methyl isocyanate, or MIC...the poison released at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing thousands. The owner of the...plant, Bayer Cropscience, had rejected calls to eliminate or reduce the production of MIC...Bill Buckner, the company’s president and chief executive, said...that an 80 percent cut in MIC production was being made because “we have taken seriously the concerns of public officials and the site’s neighbors.”...[also refers to Union Carbide, part of Dow]