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Biology, Conservation, Legislation & Regulations => Conservation & Environment => Topic started by: djkimmel on September 11, 2007, 09:53:07 PM
BP says it won't increase discharge into Lake Michigan
Tom Coyne / Associated Press
Thursday, August 23, 2007
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- BP America, after weeks of criticism by environmentalists and politicians, announced Thursday it will not increase the amount of pollution it dumps into Lake Michigan.
Instead, the company said it will work over the next 18 months to seek technological solutions so it can move ahead with plans to expand its oil refinery in Whiting -- just east of Chicago -- without increasing the amount of ammonia and suspended solids it dumps into the Great Lakes.
Read Detroit News article (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070823/UPDATE/708230489/1001/BIZ)