CHURCHVILLE, VA: The Chesapeake Bay is in eco-collapse. The once-clear waters are clouded with sediment, so the eel-grass cannot grow across the bottom for baby crabs to hide in. The oysters, which once filtered every bit of the bay’s water twice daily, have mostly succumbed to such viral diseases as MSX and Dermo.
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By. Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—I was invited to testify before the Senate environment committee Sept. 26, on “The Impact of Global Warming on the Chesapeake Bay.â€Â I told the committee there was no man-made global warming impact on the Bay. The Bay has been warmer than now several times because the moderate 1,500-year climate cycles [...]
Richard A. Halpern
Virginia’s Livestock Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay
There is nothing that wakes up a community quite as smartly as discovering that the government is watching. That was our experience several years ago in the agricultural heartland of Virginia when we learned that the state Department of Environmental Quality had fixed its attention on [...]
