The Chesapeake Subcommittee advanced six environmental and natural resources bills — including measures on well water PFAS testing, wetlands protection, dredged material reuse, and oyster stock assessments — while killing two bills on a split 6-4 and 6-3 vote, and carrying over a fisheries climate adaptation bill for one year.
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Delegate Kent stated VMRC administration is supportive of HB 843, but an unnamed committee member directly challenged that claim, stating: 'I'm under the impression that the administration would prefer to keep the situation as it is now, especially as it relates to the fact that this takes power away of power of appointments up, away from the legislature.' The unnamed member also argued the bill undermines the policy linkage between VMRC and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission. The bill was laid on the table 6 to 4.
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“We thought we'd been giving our children a healthy Start in life. But the whole time they'd been ingesting toxic chemicals in utero through my breast milk from the tap. These chemicals accumulate in their little bodies and they'll be with them the rest of their lives. They would have been better off on formula and they would have been better off growing up in town.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood afternoon, everybody. This is Chesapeake Natural Resources, Chesapeake subcomp. And it's good that everyone is here. If we can open the roll for attendance. All right. The clerk closed the roll. Right. We have a quorum first on our docket. It's HB 52, Delegate Bloxam. Thank you, Madam Chair. This bill is just trying to make government work a little more efficient. We were having issues with the getting projects approved using beneficial use. I think there's some things in the bill, and I do have a couple line amendments. I guess we'll go ahead and put those in the proper form if we could. Madam Chair. I'll get Lis to hand those out for me, please. Madam Chair, if you could. Yes. Move the amendment. Second. The line. Amendment 7 properly moved. And second. All in favor say aye. Those opposed no. All right. The amendments have been adopted. Delegate Boxam. Thank you, Madam Chair. And what this is trying to do is to move the ball forward a little bit. When we're using. When BMRC approves dredging projects, they have some people would say waste from it, but we say it's beneficial use of dredged materials. And…
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