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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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I know I've ranted and raved a fair amount about the ignominious death of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.

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The news that reverberated around the web yesterday was hardly unexpected -- the climate bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally announced was officially dead, was on its way out for a long time.

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If 97% of climate scientists are right, then history will judge present-day world leaders first and foremost on what they did to combat climate change once the plight was made clear. Take Barack Obama.

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In the arena of green politics, the spotlight has been hogged by the troubled energy reform efforts in the Senate. Many are watching as the best chance to reign in carbon emissions and stimulate clean energy development on a large scale is slipping away, with Barack Obama perhaps helpless to do much about it.

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Those who've long waited for climate and clean energy legislation to make its way out of the Senate are nervously watching the days tick away before the November elections -- wherein the prospect of lost Democratic seats will make it much harder to seriously reform US energy policy and address climate change.

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President Obama has signed an executive order adopting the

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It's kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago -- a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them.

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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.

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Coming through a variety of sources all through the afternoon, not the least of which is the AP talking to Obama administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity, is word that a