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BP Meets With Officials About Dumping Plan [VIDEO]
- NBC5 Chicago (new window)
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| BP officials meet with environmentalists and politicians about their dumping plan. | |
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BP refinery faces 'firestorm' on dumping plans
- Chicago Tribune (new window)
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| CHICAGO (AP) - A permit allowing an oil refinery to dump more pollutants into Lake Michigan is one of the most serious threats to the world's fifth-largest lake in decades, said Illinois environmentalists and officials who blasted neighboring Indiana's approval of the action. | |
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Plans to expand oil refinery draw fire
- Detroit Free Press (new window)
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| In a classic battle between economic and environmental interests, some members of Congress from the Great Lakes states are urging a federal agency to prevent an Indiana oil refinery from moving ahead with a $3-billion expansion of its plant along the southern Lake Michigan shoreline. | |
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