Pearce pans plan to pay for Lake Champlain cleanup with capital funds

State Treasurer Beth Pearce speaks at a news conference earlier this year. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerThe state treasurer and the Scott administration are at odds over funding the cleanup of Lake Champlain.
On Wednesday, Treasurer Beth Pearce panned a recommendation by a Scott administration-led group to use existing state construction funds to pay for phosphorus reduction efforts over the next several years.
Pearce said it is not “feasible” to use exclusively capital budge