Choose Clean Water Anthony Caligiuri, Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation Mid‐Atlantic Region Chesapeake Bay Watershed The Mission of the Choose Clean Water Coalition is to serve as a strong, united, effective advocate for restoring the hundreds of streams and rivers that make up the Chesapeake Bay watershed by coordinating policy, message, and actions and fostering accountability for clean-up success at the federal, state and local levels. National Organizations Engaging on Regional & Local Issues Congressional Districts in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Chesapeake Bay Watershed Coalition Members– March 2011 • 10000 Friends of Pennsylvania • ClearWater Conservancy • Izaak Walton League of America, Inc. • Presbyterian Citizens in Action • Accokeek Foundation • Coalition for Smarter Growth • James River Association • Prince William Conservation Alliance • Adkins Arboretum • Coastal Conservation Association • Kent Island Defense League • Public Policy Virginia • African American Land Trust • Coastal Conservation Association • Lancaster Farmland Trust • Queen Annes Conservation Association • Alice Ferguson Foundation Maryland • Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy • Rainscaping.org • Alleghany Highlands Conservancy • Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania • Lower Shore Land Trust • Restore America's Estuaries • Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring • Corsica River Conservancy • Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway, • Rockfish Valley Foundation (ALLARM) • DC Environmental Network • Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper • Safe Food and Fertilizer • American Canoe • Defenders of Wildlife • Lynnhaven River NOW • Sassafras River Association • American Rivers • Delaware Nature Society • Maryland Bass Federation Nation • Savage River Watershed Association • Anacostia Riverkeeper • Dorchester Citizens for Planned Growth • Maryland LCV • Save Western Maryland • Anacostia Watershed Rest. Partnership • Earth Conservation Corps • Maryland Pesticide Network • Scenic Virginia • Anacostia Watershed Society • Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for • Maryland Stormwater Consortium • Severn Riverkeeper • Audubon MD/DC Abandoned Mine Reclamation • Mattawoman Watershed Society • Shenandoah Riverkeeper • • Audubon Naturalist Society Eastern Shore Land Conservancy • Nanticoke Watershed Preservation • Shenandoah Valley Network • • Audubon Society of Northern Virginia Elizabeth River Project Group • Sierra Club‐ Maryland Chapter • • Back River Restoration Committee Elks Creek Watershed Association • National Aquarium • Sierra Club‐ Pennsylvania Chapter • • Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network Environment America • National Parks Conservation Association • Sierra Club‐ Virginia Chapter • • Baltimore Water Alliance Environment Maryland • National Wildlife Federation • South River Federation • • Baltimore Waterfront Partnership Environment Virginia • Natural Resources Defense Council • Southern Environmental Law Center • • Bay Hundddred Foundation Environmental Advocates of New York • Nature Abdbounds • Spring Creek Watershed Commission • • Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation Environmental Defense Fund • New York League of Conservation Voters • St. Mary's River Watershed Association • Bohemian River Association Environmental Working Group • Northeast Pennsylvania Citizens in Action • Surfrider ‐DC Chapter • C&O Canal Association Evergreen Conservation Finance • One Thousand Friends of Maryland • Susquehanna Greenway Partnership • • Cacapon Institute Float Fishermen of Virginia • Partners for Open Space • Talbot Rivers Protection Association • • Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Freshwater Institute • Partnership for Smarter Growth • Theodore Roosevelt Conservation • Chapman Forest Foundation • Friends of Dyke Marsh • Patuxent Tidewater Land Trust Partnership • Chesapeake Bay Foundation • Friends of Lower Beaverdam Creek • Paxton Creek Watershed and Education • Trout Unlimited • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum • Friends of Powhatan Creek Watershed Association • Upper Susquehanna Coalition • Chesapeake BaySavers • Friends of Rock Creek's Environment • Peach Bottom Concerned Citizens • Virginia Conservation Network • Chesapeake Climate Action Network • Friends of Shenandoah Mountain • PennEnvironment • Virginia League of Conservation Voters • Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping • Friends of the Appomattox River • Penns Valley Conservation Association • Virginia State Waterman's Association • Chesapeake Covenant Community • Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains • Pennsylvania Council of Churches • Virginia Wilderness Committee • Chesapeake Ecology Center • Friends of the Chemung River Watershed • Pennsylvania Farmers Union • West Virginia Rivers Coalition • Chesapeake Legal Alliance • Friends of the Nanticoke • Pennsylvania Interfaith Climate Change • West/Rhode Riverkeeper • Chesapeake Stormwater Network • Friends of the North Fork of the Campaign • Western Clinton Sportsmen's Association • • Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Shenandoah River Pennsylvania Organization for Watershed • Wetlands Watch • and Rivers • Chester River Association Friends of the Rappahannock • Wicomico Environmental Trust • • Phillips Wharf Environmental Center • Choptank River Eastern Bay Conservancy Friends of the Rivers of Virginia • Wild Virginia • • Piedmont Environmental Council • Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition • Youghiogheny River Watershed • • Pinchot Institute • Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future Groundwork Anacostia River DC Association • • Potomac Conservancy • Civil War Preservation Trust Growth Action Network of AA County • • Potomac Riverkeeper • Clean Water Action Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Goose Creek Association Forum 2011 Middleburg, VA 1 Choose Clean Water Anthony Caligiuri, Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation Mid‐Atlantic Region Policy Priorities for 2011 Who cares? • Ensuring local implementation of state Watershed Implementation Plans (Phase II of WIP’s) • Improving policies that stop polluted runoff in cities and towns (National & Regional Storm water Rule) • Protecting communities from water pollution created by gas drilling (Marcellus Shale) • Ensuring continued federal investment in Chesapeake Bay watershed restoration and protection (Federal Approps) Choose Clean Water Coalition + Goose Creek Association = • Access to National & State NGO Members by GCA for local activism needs • Larger tool box for GCA, including coalition resources, staff and expertise • Stronger on the ground relationships for CCW Coalition for local & federal work • Opportunity to raise GCA priorities to a broader audience • Opportunity for coalition re‐grants on common priorities • Introduction to broader Bay Funders networks • Connection to the national fight for Clean Water Goose Creek Association Forum 2011 Middleburg, VA 2.