CAFO – Chesapeake Bay Action Plan

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.

GERALD WINEGRAD: WEAK NEW BAY AGREEMENT IS DEATH WARRANT FOR CHESAPEAKE | COMMENTARY

By admin | October 24, 2025

The agreement has been politically sanitized to appear as if meaningful plans are being made, when actually it is a major setback.

Agriculture is destroying the Chesapeake Bay

By admin | July 7, 2023

Between 1950 and 1982, the amount of nitrogen from manure and fertilizer applied to bay crop land nearly doubled, reaching 960 million pounds annually, as farmland decreased by nearly half. Alarmingly, the average annual rate of nutrient reductions from bay region farmland has actually decreased since 2009.

Report finds Maryland is lax in regulating poultry industry pollution

By admin | December 8, 2021

By Gerald Winegrad A new report, “Blind Eye to Big Chicken,” documents a near complete abdication by Maryland agencies of their responsibilities to enforce critical pollution control regulations to rein in massive poultry industry pollution. The report by the watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) details how chicken growers continue to violate state laws with…

Courts start to hold Big Chicken accountable, when will Maryland?

By Fred Tutman | June 4, 2021

By Gerald Winegrad: To paraphrase Shakespeare: Something is rotten in the state of Maryland — and all over the Delmarva Peninsula. And it is so rotten that it is contaminating the air people breathe, the water they drink, and the region’s creeks and the bay. The rot comes from major corporations’ industrialization of chicken…

Chickens and the Bay

By Fred Tutman | July 13, 2020

The simple solution is avoided: Make the giant chicken corporations take care of the manure in a sound environmental fashion!

The Hudson/Perdue Chicken Waste Case — What We’ve Already Learned

By admin | December 19, 2012

A decision is expected soon in the highly publicized federal lawsuit Waterkeepers Alliance, Inc., vs. Alan and Kristen Hudson Farm and Perdue Farms, Inc. The outcome is anyone’s guess, but already testimony from the trial has made clear that Maryland’s effort to oversee and enforce nutrient management plans needs more muscle.