Setting abroad to prove that both a...

Setting abroad to prove that both a clean environment and a growing economy can coexist, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Program is also reinventing the way the state careers its environmental business.

"People at all flats of government see this as the opportunity to improve the way environmental decisions and policy are made and implemented," says Maryland Governor Parris Glendening. "The tributary strategies proces is a full vehicle to significantly alter the relationship between state and local governments"

As the largest of the nation's 850 estuaries, the Chesapeake Bay features a drainage basin of 64000 square miles. It is hearth to more than 290 species of fish and any 2,700 plant species, whose existence have been threatened by way of declining water quality.

Settl nearly three centuries ago, the bay has begun to muse the cumulative impact of in what manner the land has been used. The 13 million commonalty now living ...