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<description>Bay Daily is a blog about environmental news and opinions in the Chesapeake Bay region with posts from Tom Pelton, Chuck Epes, and guest bloggers.

Tom Pelton is senior writer for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and host of “The Environment in Focus” on WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore.

Chuck Epes is assistant director of media relations for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.

John Page Williams is senior naturalist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and author of several books about the Chesapeake Bay. He works in CBF's Annapolis, Maryland office.

Adam Wickline is community building manager for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and also works in Annapolis, Maryland.

Cartoons by Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher. 

If you would like to learn more about Chesapeake Bay Foundation visit http://www.cbf.org
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<title>What Do Builders – and Va. regulators – Have to Hide?</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Virginia is developing a new regulatory tool aimed at reducing dirt and other pollution running off construction sites around the state. If you’ve ever seen dirt tracked off a construction lot or mud running off a building site after a heavy rain, you can understand why it’s important to control...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/CJ0rJB5XSF4" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



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<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:53:33 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>New Oyster Restoration Effort Launched in Chesapeake Bay</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[It was a balmy spring day on a river on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, with the water glassy and the sun illuminating feathery piles of clouds. Stephanie Westby, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), cruised in a boat toward a barge a carrying a mountain of baby...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/okmbPJnBh6g" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:18 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Penny Wise and Bay Foolish</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing to slash funding needed to reduce runoff pollution from farms into the Chesapeake Bay. The House Agriculture Committee released released a draft 2013 Farm Bill that would cut money for conservation programs that help farmers pay for the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/HeYSH5rre68" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:14:03 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Small Town Solving a Big Problem</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The little town of Ashland, Va., is trying to do its part to reduce pollution going to the Chesapeake Bay -- by building a better parking lot. Last month, the town celebrated the completion of a new municipal parking lot with a ribbon cutting, dignitaries, and speeches. As the local newspaper, the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/DtqPFqHUNQo" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chuck Epes</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:36:34 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Chesapeake Bay Needs Speedy Confirmation of EPA Administrator</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[After repeated delays and political grandstanding, a Senate hearing has been scheduled for noon today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to become EPA Administrator. McCarthy, currently EPA’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, is a former Commissioner of the Connecticut...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/tvi1whsEbuY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:16:52 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>CBF Forum Explores Perplexing Problems with Smallmouth Bass</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A packed house greeted the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s recent public forum about the causes of dieseases and die-offs of smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna River and other Bay tributaries. Scientists, activists, anglers, reporters, and representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/_7BQCAdoz-U" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:33:23 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Want to Make a Difference? Look No Further</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[People often ask what they can do to make a real, tangible difference in restoring the Chesapeake Bay. If you’re a Bay Daily reader in Virginia (or beyond), here are three suggestions. Help build one of the world’s greenest, most environmentally sustainable buildings to serve as a model for living...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/zLtaYA6M0BA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chuck Epes</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:35:23 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Public Invited to Discussion of Plight of Smallmouth Bass</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sport fishermen and women, clean water activists, and everyone who cares about the health and future of the Chesapeake Bay’s largest tributary -– the Susquehanna River -– are invited to a public forum tomorrow evening (May 8) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to discuss the plight of smallmouth bass....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/37rkqBYvPPE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 07:44:50 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Study: Restored Oyster Reefs Better at Absorbing Pollution</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s a shell of a wastewater treatment system. As it turns out, oysters remove nitrogen pollution from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and other bodies of waters at rates that are higher than previously known, according to a new report by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/hAQPBVahhVM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate>

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<title>Veto of Bay Cleanup Bill is Overturned by Anne Arundel County Council</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is moving forward with cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. The county council voted 5-2 this afternoon to override last week’s veto by County Executive Laura Neuman of a stormwater pollution control fee. The fee is currently scheduled to start on July 1, and is now set at...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BayDaily/~4/xrEbrJ2vCk4" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>



<dc:creator>Chesapeake Bay Foundation</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 16:28:47 -0400</pubDate>

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