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Saving the Chesapeake with federal funds.
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February 15, 2008|
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For many Virginia poultry and cattle farmers living along the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the U.S., federal funding is the key to keeping the water clean. The bay is suffering from algae blooms and a decline in fish habitat caused by excess nutrients from nearby farms.
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"These programs are important to reducing agricultural runoff," says Chuck Epes, a spokesman for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF). "If Congress doesn't reauthorize the bill, conservation programs for farmers will die with it."
But those funds are ...
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