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Vermont's Billion-Dollar Lake Champlain Cleanup Falls Short
Original: Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back. --- The st
Vermont launched an ambitious cleanup effort in 2015 to restore Lake Champlain and meet tougher EPA water-quality restrictions. A decade later, the state has spent nearly a billion dollars, yet toxic green algae blooms keep returning to the lake. Reporting by ProPublica is drawing attention to the gap between the scale of spending and the persisting pollution problem.
Why now: A major investigative report highlights that nearly a billion dollars of spending has failed to stop recurring algae blooms in Lake Champlain.
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- Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back. --- The state kicked off an ambitious effort in 2015 to clean up waterways and meet tougher EPA restrictions. But after a decade and nearly a billion dollars spent,… · ProPublica@newsie.social · 29
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