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Missing The Mark In The Chesapeake Bay: A Report Card For The Phase I Watershed Implementation Plans, Robert L. Glicksman
Missing The Mark In The Chesapeake Bay: A Report Card For The Phase I Watershed Implementation Plans, Robert L. Glicksman
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Momentum for Chesapeake Bay restoration has advanced significantly in the past two years, shaped by the combination of President Obama’s Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Executive Order and the EPA’s Bay-wide Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process. These federal initiatives, taken in partnership with the Bay states, required the Bay states and the District of Columbia to submit Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) to demonstrate how they will meet the pollution targets in the applicable TMDLs. In August, the Center for Progressive Reform sent the Chesapeake Bay watershed jurisdictions (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of …