Subject: Chesapeake Currents - Spring 2013
From: Clean Water Action <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:00:52 -0400 (EDT)

More Inside! [ http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/chesapeake-currents-spring-2013 ]
 [ http://www.cleanwateraction.org/files/publications/Chesapeake%20Currents%20-%20Spring%202013.pdf ] 

Maryland

Clean Water Action and allies are now working with state lawmakers in Annapolis on: 

  * Creating a comprehensive database on Maryland pesticide use to make it easier to understand and regulate impacts on public health and water quality. 
  * Enacting a legislative moratorium on hydraulic fracturing extraction of natural gas (fracking) until appropriate studies are complete, and regulatory policies are in place to safeguard drinking water supplies, downstream water quality and quality of life. 
  * Advancing offshore wind generation to increase the percentage of Maryland's energy supply that is clean and renewable, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create jobs.* *Read more [ http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/chesapeake-currents-spring-2013 ] 

Delaware

Delaware's forthcoming plans for handling the decades-old pile of toxic coal ash stored on Burton Island in Indian River will face tough scrutiny from Clean Water Action. 

"The state's long-term plan for the Burton Island coal ash landfill needs to include rapidly phasing out the use of coal as an energy source," says Clean Water Action's Andrew Fellows. "Coal's many impacts on our communities are devastating, and the Burton Island site is yet another example of this." Read more [ http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/chesapeake-currents-spring-2013 ] 

Washington, DC

Momentum is building for improved standards to protect the Anacostia, Potomac and other rivers, streams and creeks from pollution that is washed off of streets and other paved surfaces. Proposed new "stormwater" regulations are a vast improvement over current policies. 

The unusually strong oversight role played by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency means that the District's standards could end up creating a national model for controlling this serious pollution problem. Not surprisingly, big developers and others opposed to strong stormwater protections may attempt to delay the new rules. Clean Water Action and allies will be working throughout the summer to make sure District officials understand how strongly these new water protections are supported by DC residents. Read more [ http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/chesapeake-currents-spring-2013 ] 

Virginia 

January 31, 2013 was the vote that never happened. Clean Water Action and allies won a critical battle in the fight to keep Virginia's current uranium mining ban in place. This was the date when the State Senate's environmental committee was scheduled to vote on Senate Bill 1353, a bill to regulate uranium mining at the Coles Hill site in Pittsylvania County. If passed, the bill would have effectively ended the state's thirty-one year ban on uranium mining, beginning what could have been a long, ferocious fight on the issue. "Read More" [ http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/chesapeake-currents-spring-2013 ]

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