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  Troubled by farmers’ and landowners’ lack of enthusiasm for enrolling land in the Conservation Reserve Program, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA will open enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with higher payment rates, new incentives, and a more targeted focus on the program’s role in climate change mitigation. Vilsack announced the changes at a meeting of the National Climate Task Force, and the White House in turn highlighted the announcement in a readout of the task force meeting. (For a broader look at the task force meeting, see top sto...

Virginia is losing 16,000 acres of trees every year to development and disease, according to the Virginia Department of Forestry. Legislation will come before the 2021 General Assembly session that

ENFIELD, NY -- Enfield Councilperson Michael Miles resigned from the board over the weekend, citing the “toxic nature of our town governance.” Miles was appointed to the board just two months ago.  Miles said he had joined the board hoping to bring it level headedness, but found he was unable.  “Instead, most of my time has been spent reading and watching the vitriol among town officials that prevents it from accomplishing basic, non-controversial tasks,” he wrote. “I have a full-time job and a family and cannot continue to spend 20-30 hours a week resisting the...

CBF's 2020 State of the Bay Score Down Slightly After Four Years of Assault on Environmental Regulations, There Is Hope This year, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (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 Bay's striped bass population, as opposed to water quality concerns. Of the 13 indicators CBF assesses, four showed declines. Despite several years of assaults to environmental protections and flagging political will, most water quality measures are showing imp...

Chesapeake Bay’s health remains poor, report says Photo/Deltaville Community Association Deltaville, an unincorporated village on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula and the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay system is still dangerously out of balance, but there’s hope for improvement as pollution levels decline and the dead zone retreats — Chesapeake Bay Foundation President Will Baker By Sarah Vogelsong Two years after its last assessment of the Chesapeake Bay’s health, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has found little overall improvement in the nation’s largest estuary...