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The refinery converts around 440,000 barrels of crude oil into gasoline every day.

BPs refinery in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan has repeatedly emitted dangerous levels of pollution. Now it must pay up, per a new settlement.

The U.S. District Court settlement modifies a previous consent decree that required BP Products North America Inc. to limit releases from the sprawling facility on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.

The refinery converts around 440,000 barrels of crude oil into gasoline every day.

Oil giant BP agreed Thursday to pay a $512,450 penalty and reduce soot emissions from its Whiting refinery in Indiana under an agreement with regulators and activists who accused the company of violating an earlier deal.

The Hoosier chapter of the Sierra Club and three other environmental groups have reached a settlement with BP for emitting too much particle pollution at its Whiting Refinery in northwest Indiana.

BP agreed to pay $512,450 in penalties and implement more pollution controls at the BP Whiting Refinery after reaching a settlement with environmental groups that sued over repeated air violations

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay a $512,450 penalty and reduce soot emissions from its Whiting refinery in Indiana

Melody Small is playing her first mammal. It's not, however, her first time onstage as an animal.

It marks the latest crackdown on one of the region’s biggest sources of air pollution, which a federal judge condemned in May for repeatedly failing to fix problems identified more than a decade ago.