EPA issues new guidelines on Chesapeake Bay restoration
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released details today about how it expects states to restore the Chesapeake Bay.
Among other things, the federal agency wants the states to have new controls in place by 2017 that will achieve 60 percent of the pollution cuts needed to restore the bay.
The bay states had agreed previously to put controls in place by 2025 that should be sufficient to clean the bay.
“EPA’s expectations for states and [the District of Columbia] are a key element of this new era of ecosystem restoration,“ said William C. Early, acting administrator for the EPA’s mid-Atlantic region.
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“The Planet has a fever.“ Or so Al Gore says. Really it’s the people who cannot get the swine flu shot that the Government run distribution system failed to give them that have fevers. Does the EPA think the Bay has a fever too? How about our Economy and the lack of JOBS?
EPA/DEQ will be back in a few years demanding more money from the taxpayer and more power over property owners. They have been doing this gig for years. They always claim the next step will solve the problem. It never does. What a nifty, self perpetuating career strategy.
Anon, are you dyslexic? A democrat is running that agency now. Both locally and nationally.
And I dont think they can smell anyway. They stink themselves too much.
Republican motto: “If it doesn’t stink, don’t fix it.“
Massive unemployment, hunger, infrastructure crumbling and the EPA wants to plow billions into the bay? Just think what the new Obamacare will do to us.
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