Chesapeake Bay Foundation Reacts to Restoration Halt

Advocates say a new executive order from President Donald Trump repealing an Obama-era directive jeopardizes decades of progress in restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. Hilary Falk with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the 2009 order has made progress in the last 15 years and that weakening leadership makes it harder to tackle pollution, flooding, and other challenges that states are facing…

“For decades, federal leadership has been essential to Chesapeake Bay restoration. We know that pollution crosses state lines and what happens upstream impacts everyone downstream.”