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🌱 Patch AM: What BP’s full restart means for Hammond’s air and gas prices

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  • What BP’s full restart means for Hammond’s air and gas prices

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Today's riddle: What did the alien say to the puzzle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

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  • Wednesday: Heavy rain and snow, with a high of 37 and low of 12 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
  • Thursday: Mostly cloudy and very cold, temps: high: 23, low: 19.
  • Friday: Cloudy, flurries; not as cold, with a high of 31 and low of 5 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• BP Refinery in Whiting Back in Full Production (lakeshorepublicmedia.org) — Residents in Hammond should know the BP Whiting Refinery complex spanning Whiting, Hammond, and East Chicago is back to full production after an October fire and fall maintenance. The restart follows outages, flaring, and earlier price spikes, and comes after a year that also saw a power failure, flooding, and an internal oil spill that drew state environmental scrutiny.
   

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