You can find out a lot on this topic by Goggling the subject of mercury emissions/ammonia/waste water and BP's refinery in NW Indiana. The CHGO TRIB had a good article on 27 July 2007. Once again, we have a situation where Federal standards are not necessarily devised or exempted with the health of the environment and those of us who live in it, primary. Actually, this issue is bipartisan and, at least in Illinois, has Republicans & Democrats on public record against the current EPA exemptions. Of course, we need to be part of the solution by tailoring our habits to reduce, reuse & recycle so we won't need to use so much of BP's main product.
Why the picture of young children above? To remind us of whom toxins damage the most.
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