Columns of flame shot up from the flare stacks of the BP Whiting Refinery Monday, causing concerns among neighboring residents in Whiting, Hammond and East Chicago.

Fed-up neighbors held protest signs and filled a conference room in Whiting, Ind. Thursday, urging state regulators to take action in the wake of multiple incidents at a nearby oil refinery.

A rescheduled meeting about the BP refinery in Whiting was held Thursday night after ... three weeks after a Feb. 1 power outage at the oil refinery led to an evacuation and increased flaring ...