Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.

Annapolis

Our Mission

CBF protects and restores the Chesapeake Bay through advocacy, litigation, and restoration. CBF's advocacy efforts are designed to help states implement plans to restore the Bay and hold states and the federal government accountable for staying on the course of restoration. Through CBF's restoration work, we aim to improve the capacity of rivers, streams and the Bay to treat pollution by protecting and restoring the Bay's natural filters through hands-on projects: building shoreline buffers, planting trees and shrubs, and raising oysters.

Who We Are

By 2015, the federal government with state cooperation will be fully enforcing the Clean Water Act and all other federal statutes applying to the Chesapeake Bay watershed system's environmental health and productivity. A precedent-setting program for pollution reduction will have been developed and will be enforced. Enforcing these laws and regulations will ensure the "delisting" of the Bay, the equivalent of a 40 on CBF's Health Index, because of the resulting reduction of nitrogen to 175 million pounds per year and phosphorus to 14.1 million pounds per year.