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Plan to Save Everglades Sinking

Lack of cash hobbles four decade long effort

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 2, 2007 10:50 AM CDT

(Newser) – An $8 billion effort to reverse generations of destruction of Florida's Everglades is faltering because federal financing has slowed to a trickle. Despite a much-heralded bipartisan agreement in 2000, the 40-year project to save the subtropical marsh is already far behind schedule, and thousands of...   Read full story »

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