Report: farms in Chesapeake Bay watershed must ‘urgently accelerate’ conservation efforts

• Elizabeth Royte

In a new report, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation calls on farms in the bay’s watershed to “urgently accelerate and scale up” their conservation efforts, not only to reduce water-borne pollution — a federal mandate — but to slash their greenhouse gas emissions and stoke local economies. The six states within the 64,000-square-mile watershed are far… » Read More