Salton Sea public health disaster gets a $250 million ‘shot in the arm’

Grist
By Zoya TeirsteinDec 5, 2022, 11:15 am197 pts
Last week, the federal government announced it will spend a quarter of a billion dollars over four years to clean up what remains of the Salton Sea, a lake in southern California that has been shrinking due to climate change-driven drought. For decades, communities living near the sea have been afflicted by…

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