Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
EPA Chesapeake Bay Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Achieving Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals in the Chesapeake Bay
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309210828
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Chesapeake Bay is North America's largest and most biologically diverse estuary, as well as an important commercial and recreational resource. However, excessive amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from human activities and land development have disrupted the ecosystem, causing harmful algae blooms, degraded habitats, and diminished populations of many species of fish and shellfish. In 1983, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) was established, based on a cooperative partnership among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the state of Maryland, and the commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the District of Columbia, to address the extent, complexity, and sources of pollutants entering the Bay. In 2008, the CBP launched a series of initiatives to increase the transparency of the program and heighten its accountability and in 2009 an executive order injected new energy into the restoration. In addition, as part of the effect to improve the pace of progress and increase accountability in the Bay restoration, a two-year milestone strategy was introduced aimed at reducing overall pollution in the Bay by focusing on incremental, short-term commitments from each of the Bay jurisdictions. The National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on the Evaluation of Chesapeake Bay Program Implementation for Nutrient Reduction in Improve Water Quality in 2009 in response to a request from the EPA. The committee was charged to assess the framework used by the states and the CBP for tracking nutrient and sediment control practices that are implemented in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and to evaluate the two-year milestone strategy. The committee was also to assess existing adaptive management strategies and to recommend improvements that could help CBP to meet its nutrient and sediment reduction goals. The committee did not attempt to identify every possible strategy that could be implemented but instead focused on approaches that are not being implemented to their full potential or that may have substantial, unrealized potential in the Bay watershed. Because many of these strategies have policy or societal implications that could not be fully evaluated by the committee, the strategies are not prioritized but are offered to encourage further consideration and exploration among the CBP partners and stakeholders.
Chesapeake Bay Program
Author: Chesapeake Executive Council. Implementation CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Chesapeake in Focus
Author: Tom PeltonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424754
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Looking to the future, Pelton offers a provocative vision of the hard steps that must be taken if we truly want to save the Bay.
Chesapeake Bay Blues
Author: Howard R. ErnstPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742523517
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The USA touts Chesapeake Bay as its premier environmental restoration programme, yet the Bay remains in poor condition.
Reauthorization of the Chesapeake Bay Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and EnvironmentPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Chesapeake Bay Program
Author: Chesapeake Bay Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Sovereign Skies
Author: Sean SeyerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421440547
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A pathbreaking history of the regulatory foundations of America's twentieth-century aerial preeminence. Today, the federal government possesses unparalleled authority over the atmosphere of the United States. Yet when the Wright Brothers inaugurated the air age on December 17, 1903, the sky was an unregulated frontier. As increasing numbers of aircraft threatened public safety in subsequent decades and World War I accentuated national security concerns about aviation, the need for government intervention became increasingly apparent. But where did authority over the airplane reside within America's federalist system? And what should US policy look like for a device that could readily travel over physical barriers and political borders? In Sovereign Skies, Sean Seyer provides a radically new understanding of the origins of American aviation policy in the first decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on the concept of mental models from cognitive science, regime theory from political science, and extensive archival sources, Seyer situates the development, spread, and institutionalization of a distinct American regulatory idea within its proper international context. He illustrates how a relatively small group of bureaucrats, military officers, industry leaders, and engineers drew upon previous regulatory schemes and international principles in their struggle to define government's relationship to the airplane. In so doing, he challenges the current domestic-centered narrative within the literature and delineates the central role of the airplane in the reinterpretation of federal power under the commerce clause. By placing the origins of aviation policy within a broader transnational context, Sovereign Skies highlights the influence of global regimes on US policy and demonstrates the need for continued engagement in world affairs. Filling a major gap in the historiography of aviation, it will be of interest to readers of aviation, diplomatic, and legal history, as well as regulatory policy and American political development.
Chesapeake Bay Program
Author: United States. Government Accountability OfficePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
How EPA Works
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Management and Organization DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description