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Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the states with the largest runoff into the Chesapeake Bay, are not on track to meet their goals to restore the nation’s largest estuary by 2025.

Officials are talking about pushing it back since the states surrounding the nation’s largest estuary, including Virginia, continue to fall short of pollution reduction goals.

As a 2025 deadline for the the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay looms, officials are talking about pushing it back since the states surrounding the nation’s largest estuary continue to fall short of pollution reduction goals.

The Chesapeake Bay Program examines the watersheds clean water standards, toxic algae growth, river flow, all factoring into the bays health.

The Chesapeake Bay's water quality slightly dropped in a 2018-20 assessment, a sign more work is needed to stop pollution from entering the body of water.

The Illinois Valley Cultural Heritage Association is working to save the historic home of James. J. Eldred.

CBF says despite the nearly 9% growth from 2020, the grass acreage is around 38% lower than its all-time-high in 2018.

The clock is ticking for the Chesapeake Bay’s surrounding jurisdictions to meet a 2025 goal set under a federal lawsuit settlement to implement policies and practices for bringing the nation’s largest estuary back to health after decades of pollution.

Chesapeake Bay areas with low oxygen levels, which can kill aquatic life, are predicted to be smaller for summer 2022 — if weather holds out.

Heres whats happened since the Environmental Protection Agency outlined why it had "no confidence" in Conowingo Dam cleanup plan five months earlier