With its 2025 deadline a little more than three years away, environmental leaders are publicly acknowledging that the Chesapeake Bay region will miss for the third time a self-imposed cleanup deadline. EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation recently released separate evaluations of states’ cleanup efforts, and both concluded the region is not on track to reduce the amount of water-fouling nutrients that reach the bay. The question of what comes next is expected to be taken up by the Chesapeake Executive Council when it meets in Washington, D.C., this week. The council, which is the senior policy-making body for bay cleanup efforts, is expected to kick off a yearlong planning process to examine next steps and new timelines for bay restoration activities.
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