Massachusetts has allocated the last of a pot of money designated to compensate for the damage to the environment caused by General Electric's Pittsfield plant.
The $15 million, paid to Massachusetts and Connecticut, is separate from the money GE must spend to remove PCBs from the Housatonic River.
The money has been spent on things like building boat launches, removing invasive species, and buying and preserving hundreds of acres that are now open to the public.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist Molly Sperduto, who was part of the team that chose the projects, said it also paid for environmental education programs for kids.
"So it's really inspiring to me to get the money on the ground, to undo some of the harm that unfortunately was caused," Sperduto said.
Connecticut finished allocating all of its funds in 2013.
The two states funded a total of 60 projects.
