Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Hump Day in the Bay

The environmental news in the Bay today is, well, to call it sparse would be generous.  A couple of different articles on the suit the Attorney General in Maryland is planning after the fracking spill in Pennsylvania.  The Washington Post and Hometown Annapolis take note of the new illegal net found full of dead fish. Lynchburg Virginia just figured out that controlling runoff from storm water was going to cost a lot money (an estimated $120 million) and they're trying to figure out who's going to pay for it (Hint, they're not planning on firing any bureaucrats and using their salary money).  A group on environmental organizations is opposing Gov. O'Malley's plans to subsidize waste to fuel energy conversion, saying it might prevent subsidies to their preferred boondoogles, wind and solar energy.  Great!  How about no subsidies, and less interference in energy production that we know works?  If we they can make chickenshit to fuel or wind or solar compete without subsidies, more power to 'em.  Finally, over the The Bay Action plan, somebody tut tutted about the Bay Report card being lowered to a C-, saying it's not right to shrug it off as caused by weather.  Yes, but until we have a Teflon lined Bay, and perfect weather all year, annual fluctuations are going to happen. Deal with it.

So that's it.  Maybe we'll get something more exciting tomorrow.

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