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Chesapeake Bay Executive Council approves revised watershed agreement, elects Shapiro chair
Summary
The council approved revisions to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, charged staff to formalize tribal partnership recommendations for 2026, and elected Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania as the council’s next chair; federal and state leaders pledged funding and monitoring commitments to meet the agreement’s 2040 milestones.
The Chesapeake Bay Executive Council on the public portion of its 2025 meeting approved revisions to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and elected Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as the council’s next chair.
Speakers at the National Aquarium in Baltimore emphasized that the rewritten agreement sets a 2040 milestone with intermediate checkpoints and a stronger emphasis on pairing predictive models with on-the-ground monitoring. An early summary read aloud by the chair listed six closed-session actions the council took, including receiving advisory-committee recommendations, reviewing an EPA Bay Program report, approving the watershed agreement revisions,…
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