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To the editor: We propose that city leaders consider achieving Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction credits through a major tree planting program rather than through the reconstruction of Taylor Run that is currently planned. The program would not only help meet Alexandria’s Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction obligations, but would also advance several of the city’s other environmental goals, including its aspiration to be an “Eco-City” that in the words of the Eco-City Charter, “embrac...

EPA Evaluates Revised Plan By New York State To Meet Bay Pollutant Reduction Targets New York State has submitted an amended Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan that if fully implemented would meet its share of the pollutant reduction targets agreed to by a multi-state partnership, an analysis by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows. In an evaluation of New York’s Amended Draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan, EPA identified sector-by-sector strengths in the revised commitments as w...

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...

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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...

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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...

Here is a look at the legislation’s provisions. COVID aid to farmers. The bill provides farmers what is essentially a third round of payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. Row crop farmers will receive new payments worth $20 an acre. Eligible crops include those that qualified for CFAP-2 on either the price-trigger or flat-rate basis. Cattle producers will receive supplemental payments under a separate formula. USDA has paid farmers more than $23 billion through the first tw...

Managing Upland Agricultural Runoff through Farm-Scale Conservation Systems and Solutions; Managing Upland Urban Runoff through Green Stormwater Infrastructure Improvements (GSI); Restoring Riparian and Freshwater Habitats through Forested Buffers, Floodplain and Wetland Reconnection, Stream Restoration and Habitat Improvements. NFWF will award a total of $7-10 million in grants through the INSR program in 2021. Awards will range from $500,000 to $1 million each, for an estimated 8-12 individua...

Since 2016, the Chesapeake Conservancy has pioneered the use of highly detailed images of landscapes taken from low-flying airplanes to pinpoint where conservation measures can best be deployed to clean up streams. Those high-resolution images — down to a scale of 1 square meter — can pinpoint the locations of pollution hotspots, such as stormwater runoff from farms and developed land, and sites with bare, erosion-prone streambanks. Lidar (light-detection and ranging) technology uses ...