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CBF s 2020 State of the Bay Score Down Slightly
After Four Years of Assault on Environmental Regulations, There Is Hope
This year, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation s (CBF) assessment of the
State of the Bay remained at a D+, but declined by one point from 2018. While concerning, the decline is largely due to ineffective management of the Bay s striped bass population, as opposed to water quality concerns.
Of the 13 indicators CBF assesses, four showed declines. Despite several years of assaults to environmental protections and flagging political will, most water quality measures are showing improvements.
But much more needs to be done.
Efforts must be accelerated to achieve the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint goal of implementing practices by 2025 that will reduce pollution sufficiently to restore water quality in local rivers, streams, and the Chesapeake Bay. While efforts to save the Bay have been underway for decades, the Blueprint established in 2010 lays out a path to s
Advocates look to Biden to help advance Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort
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Bald eagles find a perch in a Chesapeake Bay marsh. (Bay Journal photo by Dave Harp)
After having made progress on a number of fronts during a Trump administration that was generally hostile to environmental spending and regulations, Chesapeake Bay advocates say they’re hoping for much more once President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20.
The Chesapeake Bay Program is set to get an extra $2.5 million next year, despite a request by President Donald Trump that its current $85 million budget be slashed to $7.3 million.Â
The bump in funding comes as the programâs six states â Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Delaware â and Washington, D.C. enter the final stretch of a decade-long push initiated under President Barack Obamaâs administration to clean up the nationâs largest estuary.Â
The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint signed by the six states and the District of Columbia sets a 2025 deadline for each to meet major targets in reducing sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus that flow from agricultural fields, city streets and sewage treatment plants into the bay. Bay Program funds go toward a range of efforts to achieve those goals, including conservation programs administered by Virginia agencies, tree-planting efforts in urban areas and projects to reduce polluted
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