Pennsylvania has made strides in its part in the Chesapeake Bay cleanup

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Ortiz has said that while Pennsylvania needed more scrutiny and enforcement from EPA, he favored a balanced approach, which he referred to as "tough love.
53% : And in 2024, Pennsylvania lawmakers further committed $50 million in state funding to sustain the program beyond 2026, when ARPA funding would run dry.
46% : In an article published in the Environmental Law Reporter last year, Mueller, who is also the director of the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, said the EPA and the bay states "have continually bowed to powerful economic and political interests" and declined to take more aggressive steps, such as objecting to inadequate water pollution permits that make the bay goals challenging to achieve.
43% : The minute you mentioned EPA, people would be backed up and scared to death," said Painter, chair of the dairy committee at the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.
38% : Maryland and other groups filed suit against EPA in 2020.
37% : The lawsuit was settled in 2023, with the EPA pledging to hold Pennsylvania to account, and today, with Trump back in office, the rhetoric about the Keystone State is altogether different.
35% : Jon Mueller, the former vice president for litigation at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, worries Trump will go further this time, attempting to revoke a key regulation underpinning the restoration effort known as the Chesapeake Bay TMDL.
30% : During his first term, Trump unsuccessfully proposed defunding the Chesapeake Bay Program.
29% : Maryland and other states filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in 2020, arguing that heavily agricultural Pennsylvania was too far behind on its bay pollution commitments, and that the federal government, under Donald Trump's guidance, was ignoring its obligation to drop the hammer.

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