The Chesapeake Bay Foundation petition has garnered an unusually high response from the public in the 23 days since the attorneys general from states such as Florida, Kansas and Alaska filed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit.
“It’s quite a statement of the public’s interest in this issue,” said Kim Coble, the Bay Foundation’s vice president for environmental protection and restoration.
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Although I believe in keeping the bay clean, 25,000 people signing a petition isn't very much since the CBF has 200,000 members(one assumes the CBF is pushing for the petition to be signed and yes I know what assume means). Just another example of media portraying statistics in a totally meaningless manner.
Hogwash, 752! Advertise this properly and you will have plenty more signatures! Ever hear of the MSM? Some people think they post all the news of the day. Maybe you should try to get them to help you with these things!
Hogwash to you 9:54. If you look at the CBF website you will see (i.e. be bombarded with) numerous opportunities to sign the petition. I'm certain the CBF emailed the link to everyone in their mailing list. I reiterate 25,000 signatures is not a unusually high response when it represents only 12% of a groups membership not to mention all the other groups that are interested in the CB. You obviously haven't any concept of how petitions like these are circulated among the faithful. Even if this was on every TV station in the US I doubt it would garner 100,000 signatures. And once again "I reiterate 25,000 signatures is not a unusually high response when it represents only 12% of a groups membership" and it is "Just another example of media portraying statistics in a totally meaningless manner"
screw both of ya's. I'm not a fan of the epa but at the same time I don't want my kids swimming in water that's fouled by the sh!t from those aholes over in Washington or NY or Penn. So yeah, make them clean up their acts! Hell I got to pay septic fee and I don't dump my crap in the bay! so they can pay to clean up their own sh!t.
Actual results would also be quite nice.
5:52 Have you signed the petition yet. Why are you saying screw ya's to the other posters. I don't see where they disagreed with the petition. 7:32 You are absolutely correct after 30 years of spending huge amounts of money the CB is getting worse not better.
All the "Save the Bay' crap has just become another excuse to suck more money out of the taxpayers. If there were more accountability on how that money is actually spent I could become more of a fan concerning cleanup efforts.
sign? you want me to sign? we don need no stinkin petition! fine the crap out of them! Literally! lmao! I have to pay then they ought to be made to pay and I don't even dump my crap in the bay!
10:10
If you buy Perdue chicken or drive a car in the watershed or use a septic then yes you absolutely dump your crap in the bay. It is indirect. It is no different than when your roof leaks and the water ends up getting into your basement.
10:10 Not just septic tanks. All sewage systems eventually leach contaminants into the bay. Remember the supposed manure pile on the Hudson farm in Berlin was actually bio-solids from Ocean City. Bio-solids is just a polite way of saying treated sewage waste.
Well, at least in Salisbury, I know when I flush my waste will be going to a proper treatment facility and purified before it goes into the river! Oh, wait, it's supposed to rain for two days straight! Woops, my bad!
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