As Congress debates a massive farm bill, lawmakers are under pressure to cut subsidy payments, and fund conservation programs instead.
For Vermont farmers, that could mean more federal money to install new environmental controls.
A new research initiative that’s focused on Lake Champlain and its tributaries has been awarded a $6.7 million grant.
University of Vermont researchers hope to find new ways of unlocking the complex environmental systems that affect the lake.
It will take at least 10 years to clean up Lake Champlain.That’s according to a new plan from the Agency of Natural Resources that focuses attention on cutting pollution in the northern part of the lake. The ten-year time frame is a retreat from the state’s previous goal, which called for reaching pollution reduction targets by 2009.