Leaders on Delmarva are worried that air born pollution sources such as an Ohio coal fired power plant could prevent the estuary’s recovery.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation notes that one third of the nitrogen in the bay comes from air born pollutants.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that those sources are mostly the product of automobiles and power plant emissions.
State officials in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware have all expressed concerns about the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule that rolls back the previous administration’s efforts to limit carbon emissions.
The 2015 Clean Power Plan called for limits on such pollution from coal power plants down to 32 percent of 2005 level by 2030.
