Daily Grist: EPA ADMINISTRATOR IN BED WITH BP

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At 12:59 PM 8/1/07, you wrote:

>Spaghetti Midwestern

>Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges

>

>Good old-fashioned fury continues to build over Indiana's decision to

>grant oil giant BP permission to increase discharges of ammonia and sludge

>into Lake Michigan. A group of eight shoreline mayors has formed a task

>force to fight the plan. Tens of thousands of residents have signed

>petitions. Last week, the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a resolution

>introduced by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) and Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers

>(R-Mich.) that urges Indiana to reconsider the move. And lawmakers have

>met with officials and BP reps to ask them to put the refinery permit on

>hold. So how did U.S. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson respond to the

>pleas of an entire nation? With half-assed talk about supporting the

>permit and pledging to work with companies, including BP, to improve the

>condition of the Great Lakes. " The administrator's comments aren't

>surprising, but they are unacceptable, " said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin

>(D-Ill.), and Waukegan, Ill., Mayor Richard Hyde called the whole

>situation " mind-baffling. "

>

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>straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Michael Hawthorne, 01 Aug 2007

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>straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Susan Kuczka, 31 Jul 2007

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>straight to the source: Tuscaloosa News, Libby Sander, 31 Jul 2007

>

>see also, in Grist: BP allowed to increase waste discharges into Lake

>Michigan

>

>see also, in Gristmill: BP, coal plants dump mercury into Great Lakes

 

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