Farmers are scaling up the practice in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and beyond—and it could simultaneously help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, mitigate climate change, and save small family farms.
Forested buffers along waterways could go a long way toward improving local water quality, mitigating climate change and saving the Chesapeake Bay. But progress to put them in the ground is sorely lacking.
In a budget hearing, DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell said coal-fired power plants are closing because of market forces and no one is making the financial commitment to fund new coal plants or help workers transition.
