70,000 Call on BP to Halt Planned Dumping 8/15/2007 - Environment Illinois

CHICAGO, Illinois—Environment Illinois today presented BP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials with more than 70,000 thousand signatures from Great Lakes region residents demanding a halt to BP's unprecedented expansion of pollution into Lake Michigan.

BP Meets With Officials About Dumping Plan [VIDEO] 8/15/2007 - NBC5 Chicago

BP officials meet with environmentalists and politicians about their dumping plan.

BP refinery faces 'firestorm' on dumping plans 8/15/2007 - Chicago Tribune

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.

Plans to expand oil refinery draw fire 7/25/2007 - Detroit Free Press

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.