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Environmental groups hailed President Biden’s proposal to fully fund the Chesapeake Bay Program, saying that if the fiscal 2022 budget is approved it would help meet clean-up goals by a deadline now only four years away.

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Global warming is real and presents an existential threat to the Earth and its inhabitants. Human activities are the major causative factor centered on fossil fuel burning and extraction, agricultural operations, and deforestation. Sea level rise caused by global warming is accelerating.

CBFs 2020 State of the Bay Score Down Slightly After Four Years of Assault on Environmental Regulations, There Is Hope This year, the Chesapeake Bay Foundations (CBF) assessment of the State of the Bay remained at a D+, but declined by one point from 2018. While concerning, the decline is largely due to ineffective management of the Bays striped bass population, as opposed to water quality concerns. Of the 13 indicators CBF assesses, four showed declines. Despite several years of assaults to e...

Advocates look to Biden to help advance Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort Published Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, 9:32 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Bay Journal News Service Bald eagles find a perch in a Chesapeake Bay marsh. (Bay Journal photo by Dave Harp) After having made progress on a number of fronts during a Trump administration that...

The Chesapeake Bay Program is set to get an extra $2.5 million next year, despite a request by President Donald Trump that its current $85 million budget be slashed to $7.3 million.  The bump in funding comes as the program’s six states — Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Delaware — and Washington, D.C. enter the final stretch of a decade-long push initiated under President Barack Obama’s administration to clean up the nation’s largest est...

Tot Shabbat Introduce young children to Shabbat Puppetry is a powerful tool for entertaining and educating and puppets take children and adults into a magical realm of wonder and joy. Join Jen Miriam Altman, Alon Altman, Raizel the Camel and Raizel’s puppet friends for a half-hour Shabbat service geared towards tots. The service includes candlelighting; singalongs with guitar, drums, and other instruments; puppets; dancing with scarves; and ends with kiddush and ha’motzi. This is a great w...