Sometimes press makes all the difference. Sometimes it doesn't. Maybe you can help....
On June 30, 2005, a "Guest Column" I co-authored with a friend who happens to be a Ph.D. stream ecologist was published in the Washington Post, Fairfax Extra, concerning a potentially grave threat to the Chesapeake Bay:
The blemished underbelly of a key environmental policy has been exposed in Fairfax County. Streams feeding into Chesapeake Bay are protected by sound scientific and legal regimens to shield them from contamination -- except when it conflicts with development interests. An extensive, science-based process defines which streams should be protected. A comprehensive legal framework ensures that development avoids these streams. But Fairfax County officials recently confirmed that this protection can be removed irreversibly and without public input at the behest of developers using only "eyeball" evidence. As a stream ecologist and an environmental lawyer, respectively, we are greatly concerned about this lack of parity and its potential consequences for the bay
What came after, however, is even more interesing...
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