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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.
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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.
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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 watershed's clean water standards, toxic algae growth, river flow, all factoring into the bay's 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.