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States and EPA pledge funding and projects as council moves to implement revised agreement
Summary
Governors and agency officials at the council meeting described new or increased state investments and projects — including Virginia’s multi-hundred‑million allocation boost for best-management practices, New York’s wastewater and tree-planting funding, DC’s sewer-tunnel work, and targeted agricultural reductions — as the council prepares to implement the revised agreement.
Governors and agency representatives used their remarks during the public portion of the council meeting to outline state and local investments that they said will help implement the revised watershed agreement.
Virginia’s governor highlighted what he described as a major scale-up in state funding for agricultural and conservation best-management practices, saying the Commonwealth had increased annual allocations from $40 million to more than $675 million and reported reductions of "3,000,000 pounds of nitrogen" and "246,000 pounds of phosphorus" from agricultural sources. He also noted permitting-time…
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