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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.

Chesapeake Bay: An Open Toilet

By Guest | March 11, 2011 |

(Posted by Scott Edwards.)

The old grey mare just ain’t what she used to be. And for that matter, neither are those chickens. Or the cows. And you just wouldn’t recognize the pigs. Even if you could see them. But you can’t. Because they spend their entire, short life in darkened, crowded, filthy sheds. Nope, farms just aren’t what they used to be. In fact, they aren’t really even farms anymore. They’re factories. Every bit as much a factory as a papermill. Or a chemical processing plant. Put away your pastoral picture book – there’s nothing quaint or country about them.

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.