BP settles long-running enforcement suit at Indiana refinery

BP has agreed to pay a $512,000 fine as part of a settlement it entered into with EPA and environmentalists to resolve long-pending litigation over emissions at its Whiting, IN, refinery, near Chicago, though environmentalists recently sued EPA in an effort to toughen the facility’s permit. The Dec. 2 consent decree addresses alleged violations at the nation’s sixth largest and one of its oldest refineries, which was built in 1889 and can output more than 400,000 oil barrels per day...