Last year, the Hoosier chapter of the Sierra Club won a lawsuit against the company for emitting too much particle pollution at its Whiting Refinery between 2015 and 2018. Exposure to particle pollution can cause heart attacks, aggravate asthma, and cause other heart and lung problems.

The site of the old Cities Service Refinery now houses a CITGO oil storage facility and vacant property owned by Oxy USA. The EPA found groundwater in the center of the site had high levels of fuel chemicals like benzene, which can cause blood cancers.

The explosion Sunday in a raw materials section of the sprawling Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor West mill on the Lake Michigan shoreline “was caused by rainwater meeting the hot slag.”

An engineering firm found "significant structural distress" from splitting and corroding steel in the 50-year-old building’s support columns, East Chicago Housing Authority officials said.

The Homerlee Business Park will be located in East Chicago, Indiana, less than a mile from Interstate 90 and near the Interstate 80/94 expressway.

The 2017 city ordinance was one of several around the country that, among other things, directed city officials and law enforcement not to share information with federal immigration authorities.

Residents in the USS Lead Superfund site in East Chicago are worried that flooding in May could have recontaminated their homes with arsenic and lead.

On Monday, the East Chicago city council voted 8-1 to allow the site of the former West Calumet Public Housing Complex to go from residential zoning to industrial.

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan for the area where the West Calumet Public Housing Complex once stood in the USS Lead Superfund site.

The federal agency recently ordered Citgo Petroleum Corp. and Oxy USA to begin assessing and cleaning up dangerous waste at the former Cities Service Refinery site in East Chicago.