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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.

Want to Know Why We Can’t Clean Up the Bay? Follow The Money

By Fred Tutman | December 9, 2010 |

Restoration and advocacy are two different approaches to dealing with the persistent problems of dirty water. But these two polarities actually have very different implications as far as funding potential, tactics and effectiveness. Actually, there is a whole generation of Bay advocates who think education and advocacy are the same thing. Nothing could be further from reality.

Polluters and Their Allies Attack Chesapeake Pollution Diet

By Senator Gerald Winegrad | November 19, 2010

(Posted by Gerald Winegrad)

Despite repeated written commitments and solemn pledges made over the last 27 years, the states in the Bay watershed have failed by wide margins to reduce the nutrient, sediment, and chemical pollutants poisoning the Chesapeake Bay. The voluntary-collaborative Chesapeake Bay Program has failed to restore the Bay’s waters from being so polluted that 90 percent of the water does not meet basic Clean Water Act standards.