Funding pulled from clean water funding bill

Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains in New York as seen from the waterfront in Burlington. Photo by Roger Crowley/for VTDigger
The debate over long-term funding to clean up the state’s lakes has raged throughout the legislative session. It finished relatively quietly on Friday with a bill rushed through the Senate after its central component was stripped out.The bill, S. 260, was the only one before lawmakers this year that would have addressed the pressing question of where the st