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Chesapeake Bay cleanup is behind schedule but "going in the right direction," largely because Pennsylvania has stepped up efforts to curb the flow of fertilizer and other runoff into bay tributaries, an Environmental Protection Agency official told Maryland lawmakers.

"To Marylanders—as a Marylander—the most important bay issue is Pennsylvania. And I'm pleased to say that Pennsylvania has been stepping up investing in small farms and investing in wastewater treatment plants," Adam Ortiz, an EPA regional administrator, said at the U.S. Capitol.

Ortiz addressed reporters after briefing Democratic Maryland Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, as well as members of the state's U.S. House delegation, about bay cleanup.

The lawmakers met as a 2025 federal deadline for the cleanup of the bay looms. The goal is reducing the runoff of harmful nutrients and sediment into the nation's largest estuary.

Cardin said that 2025 "was the year that was targeted in 2014 for the goals of the last bay agreement. We know that we're not going to hit our targets that were set in 2014."

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