Oil titan BP reached a $2.75 million settlement Thursday over air pollution from its largest refinery after environmentalists complained of repeated emissions violations at the Whiting facility in Indiana.
BP will pay $2.75 million to settle another lawsuit accusing the company of emitting illegal amounts of lung-damaging soot at its Whiting refinery in northwest Indiana, just across the state border from Chicago.
The latest lawsuit, filed by the Environmental Integrity Project on behalf of the Sierra Club, hinged on the results of nine pollution tests BP provided to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management between 2015 and 2018. In eight of the tests, the refinery’s boilers released concentrations of particulate matter, commonly known as soot, that exceeded permitted limits.
The BP Whiting refinery in East Chicago, Ind., is shown on Sept. 21, 2017. Oil titan BP reached a $2.75 million settlement Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, over air pollution from its largest refinery after environmentalists complained of repeated emissions violations at the Whiting facility in Indiana.
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