The Bush administration is never interested in cooperating with anyone outside of richest special interests. Since the Chesapeake Bay can't offer any big money to candidates, it's ignored and left to rot. It's also the same treatment that they give to government departments that they don't like, such as the FDA and EPA.
"The Chesapeake Bay Program has been acclaimed as a model of federal-state partnership. Unfortunately, the federal participation has been a model for failure under this administration," Baker said. He said the federal government continues to allow power plants to emit large amounts of mercury and nitrogen into the atmosphere and has cut federal funds for sewage upgrades.
