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by - The Chesapeake Bay is one of America's most treasured waterways, but also one of the most polluted. Experts in this WRI Podcast examine nutrient trading as a potential solution.
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by Cy Jones, Beth McGee, Lee Epstein, Erik Fisher and Peggy Sanner - March 2017Efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay will benefit from nutrient trading to help meet stormwater requirements, which can be the most challenging to achieve. WRI and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation studied three counties—two in Maryland and one in Virginia—to explore the potential for nutrient trading with the stormwater sector.
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by Todd Gartner, Bobby Cochran, June Reyes and Carrie Sanneman - June 18, 2015A new online guide to water quality trading can help farms, utilities and other businesses cut pollution and restore U.S. waters to their swimmable, fishable best.
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Advancing voluntary and market-based solutions for improving water quality in a manner that maximizes economic efficiency and maintains environmental integrity.
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by Michelle Perez - April 17, 2013The Gulf of Mexico has the largest dead zone in the United States and the second-largest in the world. Dead zones form when excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorous wash into waterways and spur algal blooms, depleting the water of oxygen and killing fish, shrimp, and other marine life. The Gulf of Mexico dead zone can range between an astounding 3,000 and 8,000 square miles. At its largest, it’s about the size of Massachusetts.
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by Evan Branosky, Cy Jones and Mindy Selman - May 2011Over the last ten years, four Chesapeake Bay states—Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia—introduced nutrient trading programs to provide wastewater treatment plants with flexible options for meeting and maintaining
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by John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - August 2010Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for both the region and the nation. But the water quality and the overall ecology of the bay have been harmed by excess runoff and discharges of nutrients, particularly nitrogen and
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by John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - June 2010The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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by Evan Branosky - May 14, 2010The federal commitment to develop and support environmental markets could have national significance.
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by John Talberth, Cy Jones, Michelle Perez, Mindy Selman and Evan Branosky - April 2010The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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by Cy Jones, Evan Branosky, Mindy Selman and Michelle Perez - February 2010The largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay is a vital economic, cultural, and ecological resource for the region and the nation. Excess runoff and discharges of nutrients—particularly nitrogen and phosphorus—from farms, pavement, wastewater treatment plants
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by Cy Jones - December 14, 2009A new Fact Sheet on nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay region covers issues such as potential costs and revenues, and how farmers and other stakeholders can benefit.
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by Mindy Selman and Suzie Greenhalgh - September 2009Nutrient overenrichment of freshwater and coastal ecosystems—or eutrophication—is a rapidly growing environmental crisis. Worldwide, the number of coastal areas impacted by eutrophication stands at over 500.
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by Cy Jones - May 15, 2009Presidential intervention has raised the stakes in a decades-long effort to clean up Chesapeake Bay.
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by Mindy Selman, Evan Branosky and Cy Jones - March 2009Water quality trading is gaining traction in a number of watersheds around the world. It is a market-based approach that works alongside water quality regulation to improve water quality, providing
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by Mindy Selman, Jenny Guiling, Jonathan St. John and Suzie Greenhalgh - January 2007Can reverse auctions be used to achieve cost-effective improvements in environmental quality?
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by Amanda Sauer and Suzie Greenhalgh - February 2003The Dead Zone is an hypoxic or oxygen-depleted zone in the Gulf of Mexico that is largely attributed to the loss of nitrogen from agricultural land in the Mississippi River Basin.
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by Paul Faeth - May 2000In the United States today, almost 3,400 waterways are impaired by nutrient pollution. The Clean Water Act and other federal and state programs have helped to improve water quality, but much remains to be done to meet national goals.