ENVIRONMENT-US: Funding Questions Dog Everglades Clean-Up Mark Weisenmiller TAMPA, Florida, 3 Jul (IPS) - Environmentalists in Florida are excited over the state's planned 1.75-billion-dollar buyout of 187,000 acres of land owned by the United States Sugar Corporation as part of a restoration of the vast Everglades wetlands, although many of the details of the deal remain sketchy. more...   Q&A: 'Climate Change Is Like Tossing a Pebble in a Calm Pond' Interview with archaologist Brian Fagan SAN DIEGO, United States, 28 May (IPS) - In his new book 'The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilisations', author and archaeologist Dr. Brian Fagan peers into the past to offer a prologue to the growing climate crisis. more...   ENVIRONMENT-US: 'Water Is Alive, It Hears Our Words' Alice Gordon LAKE LANIER ISLANDS, 13 Jun (IPS) - Native Americans and others completed a 10-day 'Walk for the Water' this week along the Chattahoochee River, which some estimates say will dry up completely by 2025 due to pressure from the rapidly growing city of Atlanta. more...   ECONOMY-US: Private Jets Targeted as Symbols of Inequality Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, 25 Jun (IPS) - Crusaders against inequality are accusing the private jet set of flying high at the expense of the environment, the national air traffic system, and lower-class taxpayers. more...   ENVIRONMENT-US: As Climate Bill Dies, Greens Express Hope Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, 6 Jun (IPS) - While Republicans succeeded Friday in effectively killing major bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate to cut greenhouse emissions that contribute to global warming, environmental groups expressed hope that the three days of debate on the measure have set the stage for success next year after the November elections. more...   ENERGY: U.S. Sees World Use Soaring Despite Rising Costs Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, 25 Jun (IPS) - World energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions will grow by about 50 percent over the next two decades despite soaring oil prices as developing countries outpace rich ones in consumption, the U.S. government predicts. more...   BIODIVERSITY-US: Loggers, Owls Not Out of the Woods Yet Michael J. Carter SEATTLE, 9 May (IPS) - Some wounds heal slowly, and the wounds of the logging community on the U.S. northwest Pacific coast are still smarting nearly 20 years after measures to protect a threatened species devastated their industry. more...   ENVIRONMENT-US: Poll Finds Deep Concern Among Hispanics Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, 23 Apr (IPS) - Hispanic voters in the United States show a high degree of awareness and concern about environmental issues, particularly global warming, according to an unprecedented national survey on Latino opinion and the environment released here Wednesday by the Sierra Club. more...   POLITICS-US: Taking on the Two-Party Monopoly Matthew Cardinale* ATLANTA, 23 Apr (IPS) - 'Politics in the U.S. is at a crisis level,' Green Party presidential hopeful Cynthia McKinney told IPS during a rare sit-down interview. 'Disillusionment, lack of participation, and establishment of false choice -- what is one to do? For me, I can't give up hope. I said yes when the Green Party said 'okay, now you want to do it?'.' more...   POLITICS-US: Outspoken War Critic Poised for Green Party Run Matthew Cardinale* ATLANTA, 22 Apr (IPS) - With media attention focused almost exclusively on the dramatic contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, millions of U.S. voters probably have no inkling that there is a ballot option beyond the Democratic and Republican Parties. more...