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firstVTDigger Workers at Lake Champlain Chocolates push to unionize ↗
+2hVTDigger Employees will vote later this month on whether to accept representation, with some seeking better compensation and changes to the company’s workplace environment. ↗
+40hProPublica Do You Live Near Lake Champlain? Help Seven Days and ProPublica Investigate Algae Blooms. ↗
+40hSeven Days Mandated Audit of Lake Champlain Cleanup Efforts Was Never Done ↗
+40hProPublica Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back. ↗
+40hSeven Days Despite $928 Million Spent, Lake Champlain Cleanup Is Falling Behind ↗
+40hProPublica NEW: Vermont 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, potentially toxic algae still lingers in Lake Champlain. What happened? with @sevendaysvt.bsky.social ↗
+40hProPublica Vermont Was Supposed to Get an Audit of Its Lake Champlain Cleanup. It Never Happened. ↗
+41hProPublica NEW: Despite a legal requirement to do so, Vermont never audited a water project that’s cost nearly a billion. “I find it amazing that they haven’t done the audit and that somebody in the legislature did not hold them to account,” said a former lawmaker. with @sevendaysvt.bsky.social ↗
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NEW: Despite a legal requirement to do so, Vermont never audited a water project that’s cost nearly a billion. “I find it amazing that they haven’t done the audit and that somebody in the legislature did not hold them to account,” said a former lawmaker. with @sevendaysvt.bsky.social
ProPublica · 1h
NEW: Vermont 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, potentially toxic algae still lingers in Lake Champlain. What happened? with @sevendaysvt.bsky.social
VTDigger · Tue 00:22
Employees will vote later this month on whether to accept representation, with some seeking better compensation and changes to the company’s workplace environment.

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sevendaysvt.com··By Jonathan Mingle and John Dillon
Despite $928 Million Spent, Lake Champlain Cleanup Is Falling Behind
Vermont is halfway into a 20-year project to address toxic algae blooms. But the results are mixed, and the problem has worsened in some spots. The post Despite $928 Million Spent, Lake Champlain Cleanup Is Falling Behind appeared first on Seven Days. (Image: Caleb Kenna)
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