The Chesapeake Executive Council announced progress toward Chesapeake Bay cleanup milestones, discussed plans for meeting requirements of the Bay “pollution diet,” and encouraged individual Bay stewardship at its annual meeting on July 11 at the Maymont Foundation in Richmond, Virginia.
Who:
Lisa Jackson, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency & Executive Council Chair
Governor Robert McDonnell, Virginia
Governor Martin O’Malley, Maryland
Governor Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania
Mayor Vincent Gray, District of Columbia
Senator Michael Brubaker, Chair, Chesapeake Bay Commission
Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
James Tierney, Assistant Commissioner for Water Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation, New York
Teresa Koon, Assistant Director, Department of Environmental Protection, West Virginia
Collin O’Mara, Secretary, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control, Delaware
Ed Kee, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Delaware
Video
Video from the morning Executive Council meeting:
Video from the Executive Council meeting press conference:
The Chesapeake Executive Council announced progress toward Chesapeake Bay cleanup milestones, discussed plans for meeting requirements of the Bay “pollution diet,” and encouraged individual Bay stewardship at its annual meeting on July 11 at the Maymont Foundation in Richmond, Virginia.
