Activists remain hopeful about Chesapeake Bay

Cleanup talks include ways to reduce runoff

By Meredith Cohn, meredith.cohn@baltsun.com

February 28th, 2010

Years of attempts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay have fallen short and there is continuing opposition to tougher regulation, but a panel of environmental activists that included the Obama administration’s point man for bay cleanup said Saturday there is still reason to hope that anti-pollution efforts will succeed.

The group gathered at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore, once the site of an oyster-packing plant, to discuss ways that community groups and individuals could improve water quality in the nation’s largest estuary – which sustains not only thousands of wildlife species, but recreational opportunities and a slice of Maryland’s economy….

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