Biden signs Romney, Moore bill to study salt lakes in drought-hit U.S. West

$25 million will fund studies of Great Salt Lake and other saline lakes.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Angelic Lemmon, a park ranger for Utah's Department of Natural Resources, walks across reef-like structures called microbialites, exposed by receding waters at the Great Salt Lake, on Sept. 28, 2022, near Salt Lake City. Federal officials will more closely monitor the environmental, economic and health impacts of shrinking lakes throughout the drought-stricken West after President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, signed a law passed through Congress that creates and funds monitoring efforts into lakes including Utah's Great Salt Lake, California's Mono Lake and Oregon's Lake Albert.

Biden signs Romney, Moore bill to study salt lakes in drought-hit U.S. West

$25 million will fund studies of Great Salt Lake and other saline lakes.

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