John Sarbanes: “Congress amended the Safe Drinking Water Act, SDWA, in 1996 to make the statute, quote, more effective after citing…”

This bill takes important steps to support the ongoing restoration of the Chesapeake Bay by reauthorizing NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office and authorizing the agency's long-running Bay Watershed Education and Training, or B-WET Grant program.

The health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can only continue to improve through robust Federal, state, and local partnerships.

Each of which--each of which--would hamper EPA's ability to regulate air pollution and, unfortunately, continues this Republican agenda of putting Big Oil interests over the interests of the public.

They want to be on the field of their democracy. They want to feel like they have some power within their own democracy.