The oil spill at the BP Whiting Refinery may be as much as three times as large as first estimated. BP is now estimating that between 15 and 39 barrels of crude oil were released into Lake Michigan on ...

The diesel-like smell sometimes rising off Lake Michigan near BP’s oil refinery in Whiting gets so bad that surfer Mike Calabro and his girlfriend suffer headaches and need to get out of the water for ...

NEW ORLEANS — BP’s chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the company’s point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis, a day after Hayward enraged members of Congress by offering few ...

Government's Thad Allen says BP 'very close' to stopping oil once and for all. July 12, 2010— -- BP has successfully lowered a new containment cap onto its leaking well, its latest attempt to ...

BP is renewing its pollution discharge permit for an oil refinery on Lake Michigan, which is done every five years. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management provided BP with a exception for ...