Chesapeake Bay:
“Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced Thursday that he
filed an amicus brief in support of the federal Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan
that is being challenged in a federal court case by the American Farm Bureau
Federation and attorneys general in 21 states. The case is pending before the
3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal district court had upheld the
plan…
Efforts to clean the bay have been underway since the
mid-1980s. The latest plan aims to put enough pollution controls in place by
2025 to restore the bay, with most of the controls being implemented by 2017.
The effort could cost Virginians more than $15 billion, according to state
estimates.
Former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration worked to develop
the current cleanup plan. But some environmentalists complained last year that
the state was falling behind in meeting certain goals, including the use of
modern methods to reduce stormwater runoff.”
~Writes Markus Schmidt of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
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