The governors of the states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin have inked a bipartisan pledge with the federal government to keep climate change from unraveling their 40-year effort to
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Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) traveled to Virginia Beach on Friday for the annual meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council, a regional policymaking body consisting of the governors of the six Bay watershed states, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Maryland would receive as much as $6 billion from the roughly $1.2 trillion package passed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to improve roads, bridges, transit systems and broadband and help fund Chesapeake Bay restoration, according to White House and congressional estimates.