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Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Eastern

Credit: (Michael Dolan from Flickr; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Delaware River The Delaware River Basin Commission could see a restoration in federal funding under a new congressional plan to give a higher national priority to conservation in the region. The interstate regulator that represents the water interests of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware has been without federal funding for all but two of the last 23 years, despite the U.S. government’s long-standing agreement to pay 20% of the agency’s running costs, or $715,000 a year. Advocates say the funding shortage makes it harder f...