On the Website
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Delaware's Watershed Implementation Plan
Delaware and the other six Bay jurisdictions agreed to create state-specific roadmaps for how they will meet the pollution reduction requirements laid out in the Chesapeake Bay TMDL by 2025.
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Current & Future Challenges
Bay restoration efforts are working. But the recovery is fragile. Climate change is an imminent threat. Regulatory rollbacks threaten progress toward clean water and air. And programs critical to the Bay's success are at risk from massive funding cuts or even elimination.
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Conowingo Can't be Excuse for Inaction
A law firm is soliciting support from other Eastern Shore localities to unite in a potential fight against efforts to clean up local creeks, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay.
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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Pollution Limits
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment are three major contributors to the poor health of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Blueprint Infographic
An infographic explaining the Chesapeake Bay Blueprint
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A Plan to Get Pennsylvania on Track
On September 13, 2016, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) called on Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to focus additional investments in five south-central counties to accelerate pollution reductions from agriculture.
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A Chesapeake Bay Recovery: Half Empty or Half Full?
Is the health of the Chesapeake Bay getting better or worse? Is the Bay cleanup campaign a success or a failure? Or something in between?
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21 States Oppose Clean Water for Chesapeake Bay States
The American Farm Bureau Federation and Fertilizer Institute have recruited 21 states from across the country to support their efforts to derail Chesapeake Bay restoration.
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2019 State of the Blueprint
A critical piece of the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint is tracking state progress toward clean water goals.
In the Blog
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Claw and Order: How Are the Crabs Doing?
July 19, 2017
Welcome to the dog days of summer! Around the Chesapeake Bay, this is also crab feast season.
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This Week in the Watershed: A Chesapeake Bay Turducken
June 2, 2017
Anyone who has been fishing or crabbing can attest that half the fun is the thrill of not knowing what exactly is on the end of the line or in the pot.
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Teamwork Is Needed
May 11, 2017
Alan Girard, CBF's Eastern Shore Director, writes, "This week representatives of six local jurisdictions on Maryland’s Eastern Shore signed off on a proposal to work collaboratively to control polluted runoff – one of the few sources of Bay pollution that’s increasing."
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Another Outrageous Attack on Clean Water and the Champions Who Stood up to It
July 14, 2016
Just this week another outrageous attempt to undermine the historic Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint rose, this time in the halls of Congress.
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This Week in the Watershed
June 17, 2016
For far too long, dead zones have plagued the Chesapeake Bay every summer.
