Anacostia river, renewed effort to cleanup bay area
The Federal officials gathered on an island in the AnacostiaRiver in Washington, D.C., to pledge a renewed effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. But that's probably what most bay-area residents heard.
THE FEDERAL officials gathered on an island in the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., to pledge a renewed effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. But that's probably what most bay-area residents heard.
They've learned the hard way that big announcements don't necessarily lead to action, and that hefty restoration plans don't necessarily affect day-to-day policymaking. So now we have a new big announcement, a new set of deadlines - this time for the year 2025 - and a new hefty restoration plan: A 173-page document on carrying out the executive order, the Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Some environmentalists are genuinely hopeful that things will be different this time. The day before the announcement on the Anacostia, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency's new promises, announced a settlement of the lawsuit it had filed against the EPA in January 2009. The settlement agreement requires that the EPA complete its baywide "pollution budget" (its specific limits on how much pollution will be allowed) by the end of this year, make sure the states have compliance plans by late 2011, and withhold federal funding or deny construction permits if states don't comply. Everything is going to depend on whether the EPA lives up to that last commitment.
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