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This week’s Feedback Friday topic is:
2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goals Unlikely to be Met
This week’s unsurprising news is the unfortunate realization that the Chesapeake Bay watershed states of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania are unlikely to meet their pollution limit goals as set by the EPA by the target 2025 deadline outlined in the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint. For those of you counting, that’s just three short years away. This news comes from a newly-released Chesapeake Bay Foundation report, which tracked the states’ progress in nitrogen and phosphorus pollution reduction via a variety infrastructural mitigation strategies, policies, and practices. The report also cites urban and suburban development (and by consequence stormwater runoff), and agriculture, as some of the largest contributors to pollution in the Bay watershed. In 2020, CBF filed suit against the EPA for lack of enforcing the clean water blueprint. That suit is still pending before U.S. District Court in Washington.
Our questions to you:
What do you think needs to be done at the local, state, and federal levels to make actual progress in the Chesapeake Bay’s restoration?
What areas of concern do you feel are most important to address?
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