Appropriations omnibus increases Chesapeake Bay Program funding by $2.5 million
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 programâs six states â Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Delaware â and Washington, D.C. enter the final stretch of a decade-long push initiated under President Barack Obamaâs administration to clean up the nationâs largest estuary. The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint signed by the six states and the District of Columbia...