Donald F. Boesch

Jul 31, 2024 | bayjournal.com | Donald F. Boesch

In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined the total maximum daily loads (TMDL) of nutrient pollutants allowed to be discharged into the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. We’re not there yet, and the Chesapeake Bay Program — the state-federal partnership that leads the restoration effort — has acknowledged that sufficient measures won’t be in place by 2025, as committed to in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Apr 20, 2024 | thehill.com | Donald F. Boesch

Fourteen years ago, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig suffered a blowout in water a mile deep. The Gulf of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people, released 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf over 87 straight days, wreaked widespread ecological harm, displaced communities, and devastated local economies. Ultimately, the worst oil spill in U.S. history cost $17.2 billion in damage.

Jul 25, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Donald F. Boesch |Jennifer Bowen |Sarah K. Hu |Diane Stoecker

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