Chuck Fox, senior advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, spoke at a town hall meeting in Annapolis, Md. on August 11. Fox spoke about the major sources of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay, including runoff from urban and suburban areas and from agricultural land. Fox also discussed the need to use the Executive Order to build more accountability into these sectors in a manner similar to the Clean Air Act.
August 12. 2009 19:38
The only way we will have true accountability is to have the ones who are destroying our environment pay for it. Whenever a developer wants to destroy forests, an ecoservices valuation and restoration cost analysis should be done, which the developer should pay before permits are issued. The same for a polluter - pay the cost of cleanup before a permit is issued. This will stop the subsidizing of developers by taxpayers, put the brakes on the widening gap between rich and poor and slow this race to the bottom. It's all about the numbers. We have been using flawed accounting for too long. We have to bring the values of our ecosystems onto the books and use them in our calculations. The Bay and it's tributaries are in this mess because the developers are allowed to treat forests as worthless, instead of critical green infrastructure that actually sustains us.
linda redding
October 31. 2011 02:51
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