In Maryland’s favor on the Senate side is Sen. Andy Harris, R-Cockeysville, sit on the House Appropriations Committee and were instrumental in ensuring $60 million was put toward the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program after President Donald Trump’s budget in March proposed cutting the program entirely. “Most important is to maintain the $60 million figure, but it’s not always easy.”īoth Ruppersberger and Rep. You don’t get it if you don’t ask,” said Rep. “Of course we’re gonna try for the $73 million (on the Senate side).
Barbara Mikulski, who was the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, past is no longer precedent.Īnd if the House cut holds this year in the Senate, it will likely be felt at the local level, including to grants that help fund conservation-related projects in agriculture, stormwater treatment, oyster restoration, as well as a slew of research and monitoring programs. In past years, the Senate restored the cut, maintaining annual funding for the program at $73 million, more than $12 million of which went to Maryland in 2016, according to an analysis done by the Choose Clean Water Coalition.īut with the retirement of Maryland Sen. WASHINGTON - If the Senate does not restore a deep, House-passed cut in federal funding to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program, the ripple effect on Maryland conservation efforts could be far larger than what the state would lose in actual dollars, according to program supporters.įor the fourth consecutive year, House appropriators in September slashed funding for the EPA’s Chesapeake program by 20 percent, to $60 million.
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