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Indiana steel mill to pay $3 million for dumping toxins into Lake Michigan tributary that led to fish kill and beach closures
One of the biggest polluters of Lake Michigan agreed Monday to pay $3 million in fines after a previous owner dumped a plume of concentrated ammonia and cyanide into a northwest Indiana tributary ...
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Opinion: Let’s Take Lake Michigan Away From Indiana
Earlier this month, the U.S. Steel mill in Portage spilled oil into Lake Michigan, closing all the beaches in the Indiana Dunes ... from ArcelorMittal in East Chicago to Escanaba, Michigan ...
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Indiana crews to resume efforts to recover capsized boat from Lake Michigan; man dead, another hurt
EAST CHICAGO ... on Friday in Lake Michigan at the time, with the water temperature at 37 degrees when the 19-foot fishing vessel flipped near the East Chicago steel mill. The Indiana Department ...
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Under pressure from lawyers and Illinois politicians, Indiana accuses Lake Michigan steel mill of manipulating water pollution samples after fish-killing spill
After an ArcelorMittal steel mill dumped fish-killing cyanide and ammonia into a Lake Michigan tributary ... in Burns Harbor, Indiana, is 20 miles from Chicago. The Luxembourg-based company ...