The conference was a big deal and highly anticipated. It drew top officials and interested activists, and even famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau showed up.
At the end of the three-day conference, top officials from Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania put pen to paper and created a bay cleanup effort that continues today.
That very first Chesapeake Bay Agreement said very little. Basically, the governors agreed to meet regularly and establish a bay office in Annapolis.
But people were...
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Clean the Bay - 2008-12-08 10:07:32
For fifty years now I have heard the same thing over and over. If talking about it worked the bay would be pristine.
Yes I'm a cynic!!!
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