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    News Analysis: EPA's Newest Plan For Cleaning Up The Chesapeake Bay
    Air date: Week of 05/19/2010
    Story length: 4:41
    Analyst: Ann Murray
    The map from USGS shows the watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay. The Susquehanna River in PA provides the bay with about half its freshwater and most of its nitrogen pollution.
    The US Environmental Protection Agency just released a strategy to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and is enlisting the six bay watershed states, including Pennsylvania. There have been decades of failed attempts to reduce pollution in the Chesapeake but EPA says this plan will work. The Allegheny Front's news analyst Ann Murray joins host Jennifer Szweda Jordan to discuss the new plan and how it will impact farmers and communities in Pennsylvania.




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