The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is facing a potential suit by the Center for Biological Diversity for allowing the use of dispersants in an attempt to limit damage in the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill.

Dispersants are used to break down oil in the slick by isolating it into very small droplets, which in theory allows the oil to be eaten by micro-organisms.

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