To: President Donald Trump
President Trump: Fully Fund Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Efforts
The Trump White House's budget cuts eliminating funding for the multi-state Chesapeake Bay cleanup are absolutely unacceptable and undermine the decades of hard work to save our nation's largest estuary from collapse. We, the undersigned, call on you to restore full funding and resources that federal, state, and local agencies need to continue this important work.
Why is this important?
In 2010, states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed came together under a landmark agreement with the EPA to reduce the amount of nutrient pollution and runoff entering the Bay. We are now seeing positive signs that the Bay is bouncing back, but the Trump White House's Draconian budget cuts are putting this work - and the Bay's recovery - in jeopardy. The Chesapeake Bay is an unparalleled natural resource and economic driver - it's time for citizens across the Bay states to take a stand and urge Trump to continue work to restore this precious ecosystem.