The Chesapeake Bay Program Flunked Its 2025 Cleanup Goals. What Happens Next?

Inside Climate News · By Aman Azhar · last updated June 26, 2024 – 1:02 AM

A new paper pegs the success of cleanup efforts to recommendations spelled out in the original documents decades ago and the EPA’s willingness to use the enforcement powers of the Clean Water Act.

By Aman Azhar

Agriculture and stormwater runoff from developed land—key reasons the Chesapeake Bay is not on target to meet 2025 cleanup goals—will continue to limit pollution reduction efforts until federal and state agencies come up with new approaches to tackle these longstanding problems.

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