The Bay Enforcement Network

Working Together to Save the Chesapeake

The Center for Progressive Reform coordinates an informal network of groups working to enforce the Bay-wide TMDL and clean up the Chesapeake.

Join CPR’s Bay Enforcement and Accountability listserv.

Future Enforcement Network meetings will be held on:

• October 30, 2014
• December 11, 2014

Resources

Issue Alerts

• State Milestone Commitments Lagging: Consequences for Cleanup: EPA Gets Serious about Weak Watershed Improvement Plans, CPR Issue Alert #1405, by CPR President Rena Steinzor and CPR Chesapeake Bay Policy Analyst Anne Havemann, July 2014.
• EPA Enforcement Retreat: EPA’s Retreat from Enforcement Will Harm the Chesapeake Bay, CPR Issue Alert #1402, by CPR President Rena Steinzor, CPR Member Scholar Robert L. Glicksman, and CPR Chesapeake Bay Policy Analyst Anne Havemann, January 2014.
  
• CAFO Permit Backlog: Falling Behind: Processing and Enforcing Permits for Animal Agriculture in Maryland is Lagging, CPR Issue Alert #1310, by CPR President Rena Steinzor and CPR Policy Analyst Anne Havemann, November 2013.
• An interactive map illustrates the time it takes MDE to process permits and the time it takes for a farm to submit a complete application. The map is available at http://www.progressivereform.org/mdcafomap.cfm.

Case Briefs

• Legal Challenge to Interstate Air Pollution Controls: EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P.: Supreme Court’s Revival of the Transport Rule Means a Cleaner Chesapeake Bay, CPR Case Brief #1403, May 2014.
• Legal Challenge to CAFO Regulation: Alt v. EPA: District Court Ruling Opens Gap in Clean Water Protections, Invites CAFOs to Ignore Pollution Standards, CPR Case Brief #1311, December 2013.
• Legal Challenge to Trading. Case Brief: Food & Water Watch v. EPA: Judge Rejects Challenge to the Trading Provisions of the Chesapeake Bay Pollution Diet, CPR Case Brief #1312, December 2013.
• Legal Challenge to the TMDL. Read Case Brief: American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA, CPR Case Brief #1308, October 2013.

White Papers

• Economic Gain from Pollution? No Profit in Pollution: A Comparison of Key Chesapeake Bay State Water Pollution Penalty Policies, CPR Briefing Paper 1305, by CPR Member Scholar Robert Glicksman and Policy Analyst Aimee Simpson, April 2013.
• Water Quality Trading. Accountability: Water Quality Trading in the Chesapeake Bay, CPR Briefing Paper # 1205, CPR President Rena Steinzor and Policy Analysts Nick Vidargas, Shana Jones, and Yee Huang, May 2012.
• Agricultural Secrecy. Going Dark Down on the Farm: How Legalized Secrecy Gives Agribusiness a Federally Funded Free Ride, CPR Briefing Paper #1213, by CPR President Rena Steinzor and Policy Analyst Yee Huang, September 2012. 

Contact Anne Havemann for more information.