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The boots on the ground—the farmers and the conservation community—are leading the way. It’s time state legislators invest in them.
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Kenny Fletcher
Last week, CBF challenged a key permit for a proposed natural gas-burning compressor station in court, defending the right of people in the historic African-American community of Union Hill to continue to breathe clean air.
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Today, we formally petitioned the Trump administration to cancel a recent rule aimed at revoking California’s authority to pursue a state program to cut tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, saying the rule is “unreasonable” and “not in the public interest.”
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The Prudence H. & Louis F. Ryan Mobile Oyster Restoration Center will change how CBF helps bring back Virginia’s oyster population.
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Yuri Huta
“This is an important step in a much larger process to recover the striped bass population up and down the Atlantic Coast."
Read MoreThe Chesapeake Bay's 64,000-square-mile watershed covers parts of six states and is home to more than 18 million people.
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