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A crowd of around 100 region residents and environmental advocates left East Chicago Central High School frustrated and angry Thursday night after a scheduled public hearing on BP Whiting refinery’s air permit was canceled at the last minute. The meeting was organized by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, who blamed the cancellation on a decision by East Chicago’s interim .
Kimberly Rodriguez said it hurt to breathe when excessive flaring at the BP Whiting Refinery blackened the air over her neighborhood. After East Chicago Central High School locked the pubic
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