Gerald Winegrad: The Chesapeake Bay is in a full-blown crisis

Citing a “historical decline in the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay” bay state governors joined by the mayor of Washington, D.C. and the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed an agreement solemnly committing to restoration. This first Bay Agreement of Dec. 9, 1983, set the stage for the formal EPA Bay Program, which was initially supported and funded by President Reagan.