John Sarbanes: “We need to try to address that and break those dependencies.”

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

We would like to thank Rep. Sarbanes for introducing this important piece of bipartisan legislation

Congress gave EPA this role more than 50 years ago under the Clean Air Act and reaffirmed that responsibility in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act.

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.