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EPA cuts could affect Vermont clean water efforts

WCAX · last updated

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) — EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made the case this week for cutting his agency’s spending and deregulating environmental rules.

The Lake Champlain Basin Program administers clean water programs in the Champlain watershed. The EPA gives the Basin Program about $30 million for initiatives like reducing phosphorus and battling algae blooms.

Program leaders say their programs’ funding is secured for the next couple of years as political parties on both sides of the lake support clean water efforts.

“They will work to ensure in the congressional part of the federal budget process our budget is intact and is even increased over what is proposed by the sitting president,” said Eric Howe, Lake Champlain Basin Program director.

Vermont and New York are under an order from the EPA to do more to clean up Lake Champlain. Howe said those requirements have not changed under the second Trump administration.

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