What is Senator Cardin doing to clean up pollution in the Chesapeake Bay?
Maryland’s most treasured resource is the Chesapeake Bay. Nitrogen, phosphorous, and other pollutants from sewage systems, agricultural runoff and residential sprawl enter the Bay, fueling biological processes that remove oxygen from the water and kill marine life. To address this problem, Senator Mikulski and I introduced S. 1346, the Chesapeake’s Healthy and Environmentally Sound Stewardship of Energy and Agriculture Act of 2007 (CHESSEA), which would promote clean water in the Chesapeake Bay, while providing approximately $200 million a year to Maryland farmers to implement a host of farmland conservation practices that are popular with farmers and highly effective.
