Let's hope
this works out a lot better than past efforts to "save the Chesapeake Bay":
The federal government said Thursday that it would seek an unprecedented role as the environmental police of the Chesapeake Bay -- enforcing new rules on farmers and keeping a closer eye on state-level bureaucrats -- in an effort to halt the estuary's long decline.
If the Environmental Protection Agency's plan works, a bay known for soft-touch oversight could become one of the most aggressively regulated bodies of water in the country.
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On Thursday, environmental groups said they were hopeful that this time would be different.
They said the EPA is threatening to do something it has never done before -- punish states that don't meet specific environmental targets. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation called these ideas "the edge pieces of the jigsaw puzzle" required to really improve the bay.
"That would be a game-changing play in this really complicated game," said Tommy Landers of the group Environment Maryland. "What we have been calling for is a commitment to enforcement and accountability. And we are seeing the signs of that from the EPA."
UPDATE:
More excellent news from the EPA, this time pertaining to the abomination known as "mountaintop removal coal mining," e.g., destroying entire ecosystems and ruining entire communities so - as Jim Webb wrote in "Born Fighting" - "the man" can get his coal and his (exorbitant) profits.
