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US Steel Joins BP In Polluting Lake Michigan

October 13, 2007 – 6:31 pm

TreeHugger US Steel, Gary Indiana The questionably named Indiana Department of Environmental Management, which should be still smarting from its BP Whiting Refinery scandal (TreeHugger here and here) is handing out permits to pollute again, this time to US Steel’s mill in Gary, Indiana. According to the Chicago Tribune, Indiana is moving to scrap, relax [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in bp whiting refinery, pollution, us steel | Comments (0)

B(ig) P(olluter) of Lake Michigan

July 16, 2007 – 10:15 pm

Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune broke the story of an unimaginably nasty little Faustian bargain the State of Indiana has entered into with BP. The absurdity of the details makes one’s head spin. In short, BP is to be allowed to dump more pollution into Lake Michigan (see BP gets break on dumping in lake). As [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in BP, EPA, environment, oil, pollution | Comments (0)