BP Whiting Refinery

Activists want to see BP update its water pollution control technology and monitor or set limits for dozens of toxic chemicals — things like PFAS, benzene and arsenic.

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Activists, NWI residents ask Indiana to reduce water pollution coming from BP's Whiting Refinery

Rebecca Thiele

The facility's permit is up for renewal. Activists say the Indiana Department of Environmental Management needs to do more to protect people who get their drinking water from Lake Michigan and visit its beaches.

Last year, the federal government slapped BP with the largest civil penalty ever imposed for industrial air pollution at its Whiting refinery.

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Hydrogen project at BP enters planning phase. Residents worry safety concerns not being heard

Rebecca Thiele

BP plans to make what’s called “blue” hydrogen — using fossil fuels to make hydrogen and then storing its carbon emissions underground. That hydrogen could be used to reduce emissions in Indiana industries that are hard to decarbonize — like oil refining and steelmaking.

The BP refinery is the largest in the U.S. Midwest and sixth-largest nationally, processing about 440,000 barrels of crude oil daily, making a variety of liquid fuels and asphalt.

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BP oil refinery in Indiana resumes normal operations weeks after power outage, temporary shutdown

Associated Press

BP spokesperson Christina Audisho said Tuesday that “the Whiting Refinery is back to normal operations" at the site along Lake Michigan some 15 miles southeast of Chicago.