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Chesapeake Bay water – and users – to benefit from Senate bill

October 19, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
beachwater, chesapeakebay, waterpollution, waterprogram

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., has introduced a bill to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. Standing at Sandy Point State Park, a popular beach destination that has been plagued in the past with periodic episodes of bacteria pollution, I could...

Feds to Release Plan to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

September 10, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
agriculture, chesapeakebay, pollution, stormwater, water, waterprogram

Today, officials from EPA, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture will be releasing reports with a series of recommendations to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay. The reports are called for under an Executive Order,...