EPA $6 Billion WTP Finding May Help States Implement Chesapeake Bay TMDL

EPA's environmental economics center has released its final report on a "willingness-to-pay" (WTP) survey that says residents value improved water quality in the Chesapeake Bay at up to more than $6 billion per year, which regulators hope will boost their implementation of the agency's multi-state nutrient and sediment cleanup plan for the Bay. The recently published report from EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), "A Stated Preference Study of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Lakes," finds that residents of...