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Transcript: EPA Drafts Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Strategy
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- November 9, 2009
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MICHELE NORRIS
NPR All Things Considered
11-09-2009
EPA Drafts Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Strategy
Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time 20:00-21:00 PM
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MICHELE NORRIS, host:
Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary, and it's in poor health. That's despite decades of promises to clean it up. Today, the federal government announced the outlines of a new effort to help restore the bay.
NPR's Richard Harris explains.
RICHARD HARRIS: The bay is in trouble largely because it's being overwhelmed with nitrogen, phosphorus and sediments from agriculture runoff as well as from the 17 million people who live in the bay's watershed. One of the biggest victims of this has been the bay's once-thriving ...
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