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Can lawmakers save the bay from global warming?

Published 09/29/07

The setting this week was a wood-paneled Capitol Hill hearing room, with soaring ceilings and plush blue drapes.

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With camera-friendly lights blazing down, one by one politicians and experts imparted their message: It's well past time to deal with global warming, if there's any chance of saving the Chesapeake Bay from the worst consequences of global climate change.

 

They came armed with reports from the National Wildlife Federation and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, outlining the worst of the worst.

The governors from Maryland and Virginia were there, along with senators and congressmen from the two states. The head of...

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