Institute for Local Self-Reliance / Future Harvest CASA / Chesapeake Bay Foundation / Waterkeepers Chesapeake / Institute for Energy and Environmental Research – Special Fall – 2019

The goal of the Million Acre Challenge – Healthy Soils for Maryland’s Future 3-year project is to build the vocal and sustained farmer- and consumer-driven movement necessary to transform Maryland agriculture into a regenerative system that improves water quality and farm resilience, is profitable, and helps mitigate climate change.

Chesapeake Legal Alliance / Center for Progressive Reform / Environmental Action Center / Environmental Integrity Project / NWF (Choose Clean Water Coalition) / Chesapeake Bay Foundation – Special Fall – 2019

The Chesapeake Accountability Project’s (CAP) Enforcement Campaign will, through a multi-year coordinated campaign, significantly reduce Bay pollution attributable to weak permitting and lack of enforcement, which by one estimate, could represent as much as 4.6 million pounds of nitrogen pollution. Their work will result in significant, measurable improvements to local and downstream water quality as well as states’ permitting programs.

Assateague Coastal Trust / Center for Progressive Reform / Environmental Action Center / Environmental Integrity Project / Waterkeepers Chesapeake – Special Fall – 2019

Enforcement, Engagement, and Empowerment for Change on the Eastern Shore project will substantially reduce nutrient pollution on Maryland’s Eastern Shore over the next five years by implementing a coordinated enforcement and community engagement campaign. In addition to accelerating the pace of pollution reductions necessary to meet Chesapeake Bay restoration goals, will also catalyze a long term transformation on the Lower Eastern Shore that promotes the interests of local communities and sustainable farming over that of the poultry industry.