Cleaning Up The Chesapeake Bay Would Bring $130 Billion In Annual Economic Benefits

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1. The economic benefits are enormous, not to mention quality of life

for humans and animals alike.

"The EPA’s Clean Water Blueprint was created at the request of the six Chesapeake Bay states* and the District of Columbia after numerous other attempts to clean up the bay failed. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has long argued that the Blueprint is necessary to solve the bay’s environmental problems, but with this report, it now argues that a cleanup is a smart economic investment for the region, as well."

PLEASE READ MORE:

http://www.cbf.org/how-we-save-the-bay/chesapeake-clean-water-blueprint


*SIX STATES: Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia--and Washington D.C. Approximately 17 million people live in the Bay watershed.