CHESAPEAKE BAY, MD – Maryland’s U.S. Senators and Representatives gathered in Washington D.C. Wednesday to address the looming expiration of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, with the Bay’s clean-up efforts falling short of the agreement’s goals.
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement is a multi-state effort to clean the Bay, with a 2025 target date for completion of a variety of restoration goals.
The EPA has been warning since at least 2022 that the Bay was not on track to reaching those 2025 pollution reduction goals. In 2023, the EPA agreed to increase its oversight of Pennsylvania’s sizable role in Chesapeake Bay pollution after Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit alleging the state wasn’t holding up its end of the Watershed Agreement…