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Chesapeake Bay makes improvements, but...

Dead zones, fish kills and pollution are still problems for the nation's largest estuary.

Tags: Chesapeake Bay , State of the Bay Report , Will Baker , EPA , TDML , bay grade , Hank Silverberg , Colleen Kelleher

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Chesapeake Bay problems still persist

Activism about cleaning up the environment since the first Earth Day has diminished, says one noted bay expert.

Tags: Chesapeake Bay , Chesapeake Bay Program , Clean Water Act , Kent Mountford , Earth Day , Environmental Protection Agency , EPA , Tom Horton , Pollution , population growth , urbanization , development

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New data show Chesapeake streams in bad health

Tags: Chesapeake Bay , Pollution , U.S. Geological Survey , nitrogen , phosphorus ,

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Switching to grazing helps farmers, Chesapeake Bay

As a restoration scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Rob Schnabel shuttles around Western Maryland in his hybrid car persuading farmers to switch to grazing -- which is healthier, eco-friendly and more profitable than confinement farming, where cows are kept in stalls and injected with antibiotics.

Tags: Chesapeake Bay , Rob Schnabel , Farmers , grazing , Farm Stewardship Program

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