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Chesapeake Bay Action Plan

After decades of effort, the voluntary, collaborative approach to restoring the health and vitality of the Chesapeake Bay— the largest estuary in the United States—has not worked and, in fact, is failing.

A diverse group of 57 senior scientists and policymakers have joined forces to save the Bay. This is our plan.

The Pollution Diet and Environmental Arbitrage

By Bob Gallagher | May 25, 2011

(Posted by Bob Gallagher.)

After decades of dissembling and broken promises, the President’s Executive Order 13508 and the implementing “pollution diet” proposed by the EPA represent the best chance we have had in a generation to actually start cleaning up the bay. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that corporate polluters have ramped up their opposition to the pollution diet to unprecedented levels to include massive spending on media advertising, lobbying, campaign contributions, litigation and scientific dirty tricks.

Arsenic With a Side of Chicken

By Kathy Phillips | April 25, 2011

(Posted by Kathy Phillips.)

Arsenic is a poison. It’s a metalloid or ‘heavy metal’. It is a carcinogenic. Its use in pesticides has been banned in the U.S. since 1988. But when it comes to food production, it is quite allowed.