{"id":2898,"date":"2019-03-13T14:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2019-03-13T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:27:06","slug":"governor-hogan-statement-on-trump-administrations-cuts-to-chesapeake-bay-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2019\/03\/13\/governor-hogan-statement-on-trump-administrations-cuts-to-chesapeake-bay-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hogan Statement on Trump Administration\u2019s Cuts To Chesapeake Bay Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222;text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Governor Hogan Statement on Trump Administration\u2019s Cuts To Chesapeake Bay Program<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 13<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">, 2019<\/span><\/span>) \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Governor Larry Hogan today issued the following statement on the Trump Administration&#8217;s proposed Fiscal Year 2020 Budget, which would drastically cut funding for Chesapeake Bay restoration:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Governor of Maryland and Chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, protecting the Chesapeake Bay remains one of my top priorities.\u00a0The EPA Administrator himself called the Chesapeake Bay Program a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwMzEzLjMwODI1OTEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwMzEzLjMwODI1OTEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzA5MjY4MCZlbWFpbGlkPWpheS5hcHBlcnNvbkBtYXJ5bGFuZC5nb3YmdXNlcmlkPWpheS5hcHBlcnNvbkBtYXJ5bGFuZC5nb3YmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060091869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type%3Dclick%26enid%3DZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwMzEzLjMwODI1OTEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwMzEzLjMwODI1OTEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzA5MjY4MCZlbWFpbGlkPWpheS5hcHBlcnNvbkBtYXJ5bGFuZC5nb3YmdXNlcmlkPWpheS5hcHBlcnNvbkBtYXJ5bGFuZC5nb3YmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY%3D%26%26%26100%26%26%26https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060091869&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1552587527079000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvzyaRW_3yOl7BViE4iPGFdWw87g\">high priority<\/a>,\u2019 making this week&#8217;s cut in the budget a total betrayal.\u00a0These cuts are potentially devastating to restoration efforts at such a critical time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere in Maryland,\u00a0leaders from both sides of the aisle\u00a0have taken a strong stance on environmental conservation, and we hope our leaders at the federal level will do the same. As I have every year, I will continue to urge our federal partners to protect these critical investments into ongoing Bay restoration efforts and work with our congressional delegation to restore funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chesapeake Bay is a state and national treasure, and federal support is essential to improving the waterway\u2019s health. We will not allow several decades of environmental restoration to be dismantled. We will continue to fight hard against any cuts to the cleanup program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">-###-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Hogan Statement on Trump Administration\u2019s Cuts To Chesapeake Bay Program &nbsp; ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 13, 2019) \u2013\u00a0Governor Larry Hogan today issued the following statement on the Trump Administration&#8217;s proposed Fiscal Year 2020 Budget, which would drastically cut funding for Chesapeake Bay restoration: \u201cAs Governor of Maryland and Chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, protecting<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2019\/03\/13\/governor-hogan-statement-on-trump-administrations-cuts-to-chesapeake-bay-program\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,82,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chesapeake-bay","category-governor-hogan","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}