BP resumes operations at Indiana factory after sending smoke clouds over Lake Michigan
It also led to angry public hearings in which the public raised concerns about emissions and health risks.
It also led to angry public hearings in which the public raised concerns about emissions and health risks.
Back in February, BP flared its stacks to burn off remaining fuel and avert an explosion, sending large clouds of smoke over Lake Michigan. Residents reported a stench more than 20 miles away. It led to higher gas prices.
Officers saw the skull encased in gravel.
A series of mishaps at the BP Refinery in Whiting, Indiana brought hundreds of people to the meeting. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
This came as the company's air permit is set to be renewed.
Operations resumed at the plant on Friday after power was fully restored, and all office buildings and nearby roads reopened.
CBS 2's Andrew Ramos reports, it made people sick and prompted hundreds of 911 calls.
"Should we expect this every single time there is a small summer storm from BP? Why did this happen? Why did they not have precautions?"
Investigators said the smell originated at the BP refinery in whiting after a weather-related incident. CBS 2's Andrew Ramos reports, residents still have their concerns.
CBS 2's Asal Rezaei reports The Porter County Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the smell was caused by an unplanned "flaring of gases" at the Whiting, Indiana BP facility.
The 134-year-old refinery is the biggest in the Midwest, and sixth largest nationally, and has a record of pollution rule violations.
A West Town gas station owner and father is dead after being caught in the crossfire during a shooting earlier Tuesday.
A gas station was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday in unincorporated north suburban Lake Villa.
More than 1,000 people are expected to rally outside the BP Refinery in Whiting, Indiana on Sunday.
Crews at the massive BP refinery in Northwest Indiana are mopping up after the discovery of a small amount of oil near a pipeline valve.
Repairs at BP's Whiting, Ind., refinery sent gas prices plunging last week across Chicago and nationwide, the biggest single-week drop this year.
Workers and management at BP have reached a tentative agreement that would end a months-long strike at the refinery in Whiting, Ind.
Local environmental activists have said they're not getting the answers they want from City Hall about an oil spill that occurred in northwest Indiana a year ago this week.
Workers are picketing at oil plants across the country including in Whiting, Indiana. They tell CBS 2's Jeremy Ross the strike is not about wages, but safety.
BP is selling part of its stake in an emerging oil-producing region in the Gulf of Mexico to Chevron, and the two companies, along with Conoco Phillips, will work to develop the fields together.
A rally was held in the former company town of Marktown Park in East Chicago, over the weekend to call attention to what activists say are environmentally unsound practices used by BP in Whiting.
No new oil has been found floating in Lake Michigan or at the bottom of a cove following further inspection Sunday of the spill site near the BP Refinery in Whiting, Ind.
Demonstrators and public officials are seething about BP's oil spill on the Indiana lakefront, but CBS 2's Ed Curran reports the damage could have been worse.
"Any unanticipated spill is cause for concern, but given the Whiting refinery's recent expansion of its operations to double the amount of heavy oil sands being processed, this spill raises questions about the long-term safety and reliability of BP's new, expanded production at Whiting," they wrote.
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