Va. makes ‘considerable progress’ on bay cleanup

By: Rex Springston 
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: July 09, 2012

FAIRFAX --Virginia has met six of nine two-year goals for restoring the Chesapeake Bay, environmental advocates said today.

Leaders of the federal and state bay cleanup established the two-year goals, or milestones, in 2009 to better gauge the progress of the decades-long restoration.

“Virginia has made considerable progress in meeting its first bay milestones,” said Ann Jennings, Virginia director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, an environmental group.

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