EPA’s Enhanced Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Could Be National Template

The EPA’s bulked-up efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay could serve as a model for water restoration projects in other parts of the country, environmentalists say.

Under President Joe Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency will dedicate more funding, more staff, and more interstate cooperation to restore the 64,000-square mile watershed, Administrator Michael Regan told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday.

If the EPA can clean up the Chesapeake—which the agency says has the largest, most complex total maximum daily load program of any waterway project it has ever undertaken—then the agency can clean up almost anything, environmentalists say.

“The ...