Pa. asks for money
I haven't noticed it yet, but I wonder if Hillary Clinton is going to talk about the Chesapeake Bay and federal money for its cleanup while she campaigns in Pennsylvania.
Why? Well, she's very close friends with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, and a bunch of the state's voters (farmers, environmentalists, local government officials) just asked Gov. Ed for $500 million to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
Despite being so far from the bay that they rarely, if ever, see herons or crabs or even muskrats, the Keystone state (where I grew up) contributes more pollution than any other to the watershed.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.
