Resources

Links

PA Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (A Cost Effective Alternative Approach to Meeting Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Targets)
PA Auditor General (Special Report: Importance of Meeting PA’s Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Targets)
PA Senate Majority Policy Committee (hearing on wastewater, stormwater issues)
University of Maryland (Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Restoration Financing Strategy Report)
US Office of Management and Budget (Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards)

Articles of Interest

Aug 10, 2016 – Science Daily – With droughts and downpours, climate change feeds Chesapeake Bay algal blooms
July 26, 2016 – Water Online – Cleaner Air May Be Driving Improvements In Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
June 17, 2016 – Pa Env Digest – EPA Will Develop Its Own Chesapeake Bay Nutrient, Sediment Reduction Goals For PA
June 16, 2016 – NMPF – National Milk Producers Federation Endorses New Legislation Creating Tax Incentive for Investments in Biogas and Nutrient Recovery
May 11, 2016 – Lebanon Daily News – DEP targets farmers to reduce pollution
May 9, 2016 – Colorado State University – Agricultural ammonia emissions disrupt earth’s delicate nitrogen balance
May 4, 2016 – Bay Journal – Despite progress, states likely to fall short of interim cleanup targets
Apr 13, 2016 – Baltimore Sun – Susquehanna named one of country’s ‘most endangered rivers’
Mar 30, 2016 – EurekAlert – Study finds wide-reaching impact of nitrogen deposition on plants
Mar 18, 2016 – Bay Journal – MDE, MDA join forces to establish nutrient trading
Feb 29, 2016 – Baltimore Sun – Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging Chesapeake Bay ‘pollution diet’
Feb 16, 2016 – Grainews – Buffer strips are not that efficient
Feb 10, 2016 – WRAL – DEQ: Water rules may not be working
Jan 19, 2016 – Bay Journal – Trading ideas on how to trade pollution
Oct 13, 2015 – MarketWatch – Why governments need to ‘self-disrupt’ so they’re not left behind
Sep 13, 2015 – LancasterOnline – Refton sewer system will cost residents thousands
Sep 4, 2015 – York Dispatch – Seeking Clarity: the ‘invisible’ pollution in York’s waterways
Sep 3, 2015 – York Dispatch – Seeking Clarity: Susquehanna River pollution endangers smallmouth bass
Aug 30, 2015 – HMMedia – EPA: Pa. lagging in Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction
May 7, 2015 – PA Senate Majority Policy Committee – Senate Majority Policy Committee learns of solutions to help state comply with federal mandates