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 Bay Journal, Chesapeake Bay leaders approve cleanup plan they call ‘achievable’

Leaders of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup approved major revisions Dec. 2 to the pact that has guided the effort for more than a decade, vowing speedier results despite uncertainty over federal funding.

“We are impatient,” said Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat and the outgoing chair of the Chesapeake Executive Council. “We want this to be the era of yes and now.”

The reworked Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement extends deadlines for cleanup goals to 2040, 57 years after the first agreement was signed in 1983. The latest action comes after earlier versions of the agreement— inked in 1987, 2000 and 2014 — fell short of achieving the central goal of significantly reducing nutrient and sediment pollution.

While I'm unlikely to be around to collect, I'm willing to put $1000 in escrow betting that 2040 will roll around, and a large number of the cleanup goals will be unmet.  They don't really want to actually get there, they'd have to dismantle an enormous bureaucracy devoted to pretending to solve the Bay's problems.