Bay advocates ask feds for more $$, regulation
What the Chesapeake Bay cleanup needs is more money, and a more aggressive federal government to hold the states accountable for curbing the pollution fouling the nation's largest estuary.
That's what state officials, scientists and environmental advocates said yesterday in meeting with members of Maryland's congressional delegation in Washington, my colleague Paul West reports in the Maryland Politics blog.
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said she organized the meeting on Capitol Hill "to proclaim that it’s a new day for the Bay."
"But as speaker after speaker pointed out," Paul writes, "it's same-old, same-old when it comes to identifying the sources of the problem and the solutions. What also hasn't changed is the remedy.
"Turning things around will require breathtaking sums of money and a level of coordination among various arms of government that doesn’t currently exist."
You can read the rest here.
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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.
