With progress toward cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay moving at a painfully slow pace, the federal government is taking the first steps toward tougher actions.
Key bay cleanup officials planned to meet in Annapolis today to discuss the process for creating bay-wide pollution limits by 2011, which would be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency.
But the nonprofit Chesapeake Bay Foundation insists there's no need to take that long to get the pollution budget finalized.
"Everyone agrees we need to accelerate implementation of pollution reduction goals," said Roy Hoagland, vice president of CBF's advocacy...
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