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A total of 10 petitions, including one from the US Chamber of Commerce, were sent to the EPA challenging its 2009 ruling that it can regulate greenhouse gases as a harmful pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

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Well, here's one bit of good news from the US government in an otherwise severely depressing one.

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Sad but true. For decade upon decade, the uS government incentivized the development of urban sprawl -- funding highways and subsidizing suburban homes and so on and so forth. Not exactly a news flash.

Mountaintop Removal Mining Site. Photo via the NY Times

Future of Mountaintop Removal Mining Hinges on Outcome
If any of you are familiar with my past postings on the topic, you'll already be aware of my general attitude towards the practice of mountaintop removal mining. To those who aren't, this should sum it up: It's an inexcusable abomination.

The EPA is launching a great water consumption awareness campaign called We're For Water. We're definitely excited that the organization is working hard to show Americans how we can curb our water use and conserve resources. Goodness knows we need it, with the average American consuming an estimated 150 gallons of water a day through household use, food, and product consumption.

Mountaintop removal mine in Kentucky, photo: iLoveMountains.org via flickr.

One more item that probably would've made more headlines had there not been a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I know I missed it until now): As

"Figure A shows the location of the lungs and airways in the body. Figure B shows a cross-section of a normal airway. Figure C shows a cross-section of an airway during asthma symptoms." Caption & Image credit:National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

Look past the oil globs and political waffling for a minute and you'll find good news lurking.

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One of the most alarming stories to emerge from the entire BP Gulf oil crisis has been the company's penchant for using toxic chemical dispersants to try to break up and spread out the oil -- and that the federal government had approved the t

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The Environmental Protection Agency has just launched a new Climate Change Indicators in the United States report (and slideshow) that really breaks down the science and effects of global warming.

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Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA, is a key person to chat with on Earth Day.