Daily Grist: Bush admin to make mountaintop-removal mining easier, and more

August 24, 2007

IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE HOW ALL SEEM TO BE FORGETTING WHAT IS BEING DONE

THIS VERY MINUTE AND ONLY FOCUSING ON WHAT THEY SAY THEY WON'T DO IN THE

FUTURE!!! IN THE MEAN TIME, DON'T WANT TO BE EATING FISH OUT THIS

PLACE!!!! KRAIG

>Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly

>BP says it will back off from releasing more Lake Michigan pollution

>

>In what's being billed as a victory for environmentalists, oil company BP

>has said it will back off from dumping more pollution into Lake Michigan.

>The company had just weeks ago received permission from Indiana state

>authorities to increase the amount of sludge particles and ammonia it

>could release into the lake each day. But pressure campaigns from greens

>as well as from Great Lakes politicians and others prompted BP to rethink

>its plan, at least for now; the company's promises to pollute less are not

>legally binding. BP's pollution increase was to accompany a $3.8 billion

>expansion of its Whiting, Ind., refinery, a plan that the company still

>intends to go through with, though spokespeople maintain that it is

>considering possible technological solutions to keep pollution levels from

>rising. " BP is hearing loud and clear that they need to do something

>different, " said Cameron Davis of the Alliance for the Great Lakes. " The

>public doesn't want business as usual. "

>

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>straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Michael Hawthorne, 24 Aug 2007

>

>straight to the source: MLive.com, Associated Press, Tom Coyne, 23 Aug 2007

>

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

>Michigan

Kraig Carroll

Environmental Damage Repair

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