The petitions claim that air permit renewals for U.S. Steel’s Midwest Plant and the BP Whiting reginery are inadequate.

BP is renewing its pollution discharge permit for an oil refinery on Lake Michigan, which is done every five years. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management provided BP with a exception for ...

Local community and environmental groups are worried about a proposed water pollution control permit for the BP Whiting refinery. Permit comments filed by the Environmental Law and Policy Center and ...

The diesel-like smell sometimes rising off Lake Michigan near BP’s oil refinery in Whiting gets so bad that surfer Mike Calabro and his girlfriend suffer headaches and need to get out of the water for ...