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		<title>Shenandoah River Pollution Lawsuit Settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), the Virginia State Waterman’s Association (VSWA), Merck &#38; Company, and the Commonwealth of Virginia have agreed to settle a CBF/VSWA lawsuit challenging pollution limits granted to Merck by the State Water Control Board in 2009. The settlement, approved by Richmond Circuit Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr., confirms that Merck’s nitrogen [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/04-2011/27/shenandoah-river-pollution-lawsuit-settlment/' addthis:title='Shenandoah River Pollution Lawsuit Settlement '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Organizations Call for Study on Effects of Shale Drilling on the Chesapeake Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and its partners are calling on the federal government to conduct a comprehensive scientific analysis of  the cumulative impacts of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation in the six Bay states, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Virginia. The first action was to file a legal [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/04-2011/04/effects-of-shale-drilling-on-the-chesapeake-bay/' addthis:title='Organizations Call for Study on Effects of Shale Drilling on the Chesapeake Bay '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Criticizes Proposed Elimination of EPA Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) President William C. Baker issued a statement regarding Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s notice that he intends to file an amendment to the fiscal 2011 funding bill. According to the CBF, the amendment would eliminate all Environmental Protection Agency funding to “develop, promulgate, evaluate, implement, provide oversight to,” Bay clean-up efforts under [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/02-2011/18/cbf-criticizes-epa-funding-elimination/' addthis:title='CBF Criticizes Proposed Elimination of EPA Funding '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Chesapeake Bay Foundation Releases 2010 State of the Bay Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Bay is showing encouraging signs of rebounding but is still in critical condition as a result of pollution, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) 2010 State of the Bay Report. The report comes as the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to release its pollution budget designed to reduce pollution and [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/12-2010/30/chesapeake-bay-foundation-2010-state-of-the-bay-report/' addthis:title='Chesapeake Bay Foundation Releases 2010 State of the Bay Report '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Review: MD WIP Postpones Difficult Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Coble, Maryland Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), has issued the following statement regarding the final Maryland Watershed Implementation Plan: “CBF has completed a preliminary review of Maryland’s plan. We commend the state for providing additional details and timelines, and for the hard work of staff. But the state has not completed [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/12-2010/03/cbf-md-wip/' addthis:title='CBF Review: MD WIP Postpones Difficult Decisions '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Weighs In on Virginia Watershed Implementation Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann F. Jennings, Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) Virginia executive director, issued the following statement regarding the Commonwealth of Virginia’s final Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on November 29, 2010: “The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) has reviewed Virginia’s revised Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP), and we are encouraged by the [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/12-2010/03/cbf-weighs-in-on-virginia-watershed-implementation-plan/' addthis:title='CBF Weighs In on Virginia Watershed Implementation Plan '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Seeks Outdoor Education Grant thru the Pepsi Refresh Project</title>
		<link>http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/11-2010/04/cbf-seeks-outdoor-education-grant-thru-the-pepsi-refresh-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is competing in the Pepsi Refresh Project competition to win a grant to boost environmental education throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. A Pepsi Refresh grant would support expenses for 4,500 students to learn outside, including a transportation stipend for 1,125 underserved urban &#38; rural students to travel to any of [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/11-2010/04/cbf-seeks-outdoor-education-grant-thru-the-pepsi-refresh-project/' addthis:title='CBF Seeks Outdoor Education Grant thru the Pepsi Refresh Project '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Responds to EPA Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) President Will Baker and Maryland Executive Director for CBF Kim Coble issued the following statements following the recent press call  by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Will Baker said: &#8221; Today, 30 years of failed, voluntary programs to save the Bay may be coming to an end. The Environmental Protection Agency [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/09-2010/28/cbf-epa-statement/' addthis:title='CBF Responds to EPA Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Strategy '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>MASN, CBF Partnership &#8211; Go to Bat for the Bay</title>
		<link>http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/06-2010/27/masn-cbf-go-to-bat-for-the-chesapeake-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MASN, the television home of the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, has announced a partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to launch a public service campaign to &#8220;Go to Bat for the Bay.&#8221;  The network will launch a series of television and online ads to increase awareness about the Chesapeake Bay and to encourage responsible [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/06-2010/27/masn-cbf-go-to-bat-for-the-chesapeake-bay/' addthis:title='MASN, CBF Partnership &#8211; Go to Bat for the Bay '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Applauds Cancellation of Offshore Drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 27, 2010, Chesapeake Bay Foundation President Will Baker issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s announcement that the federal government is cancelling sales of leases to drill for oil and natural gas off the Virginia coast. “We applaud President Obama’s decision to cancel sales of oil and gas leasing off Virginia’s coast [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/05-2010/27/cbf-applauds-cancellation-of-offshore-drilling/' addthis:title='CBF Applauds Cancellation of Offshore Drilling '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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