(Steve Helber/AP)Oklahoma is 1,400 miles from the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, Md., halfway across the country. Driftwood can be seen on the beach near the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, headquarters of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)“Scott Pruitt could sink the Chesapeake Bay cleanup,” said Eric Schaeffer, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project. “We all can agree that we want a healthy, functioning, clean Chesapeake Bay,” Parrish said. Under the EPA cleanup, the bay has improved, according to the foundation’s most recent biennial “State of the Bay” report.

Source: Washington Post January 16, 2017 21:59 UTC