Editor-in-Chief
Oil
clean-up efforts ended last week at Lake Michigan following a March 24 oil spill
at a BP refinery in Indiana. BP officials report that over 1,600 gallons of oil
were discharged into the lake by the spill, much higher than the first
estimates of 300 to 500. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
reports that the spill has not affected the lake’s beaches so far. BP has
experienced problems with oil spills before, with public outrage from the
infamous Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 which dumped thousands of tons of
crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico still weighing on the company.
