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Vermont Was Supposed to Get an Audit of Its Lake Champlain Cleanup. It Never Happened.

By Jonathan Mingle, ProPublica · November 4, 2026

This summer, Vermont’s Clean Water Board celebrated a milestone: Over the past decade, the state has invested nearly a billion dollars to clean up its polluted streams, rivers and lakes. The vast majority of that money has gone toward Lake Champlain. “I think that’s something to be extremely proud of,” said Douglas…

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Vermont Was Supposed to Get an Audit of Its Lake Champlain Cleanup. It Never Happened.

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