States Sue EPA Over Chesapeake Bay Pollution Reduction Plans

Route Fifty: The Environmental Protection Agency is failing to enforce a multi-state pact to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by allowing two states to fall short of goals to reduce water pollution, according to a lawsuit filed this week by other states that border the nation’s largest estuary.

The litigation stems from an agreement signed by six states and Washington, D.C. to put pollution-reduction plans in place to meet certain water quality standards in the bay by 2025.

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