Chesapeake Bay Foundation
http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1023
[From a story in the Suffolk News-Herald] Extensive government regulation of Chesapeake Bay pollution would create jobs, rather than kill them, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims in a new report…
In December 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the new pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay to accelerate its cleanup. States in the watershed — including Virginia — must reduce pollution by 25 percent by 2025.
The new report states that the number of environmental clean-up and monitoring jobs in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia has risen 43 percent during the last two decades. Furthermore, about 11,751 new temporary jobs are expected during five years if Virginia and the federal government invest $804 million in farm runoff-control projects like planting trees and building fences along streams, according to a University of Virginia report…
