USA TODAY:
The latest effort to clean up one of America’s most polluted waterways is focusing on an unusual target — two dozen mostly Amish farmers.
Federal and state environmental officials are working with Lancaster County, Pa., farmers to stop cow manure from draining during rainstorms into a nearby stream. That stream flows into the Chesapeake Bay, which has remained highly polluted despite $6 billion spent over the past 25 years to clean it up…
“We think of what’s happening in Lancaster County as a showcase,” says John Hanger, the head of Pennsylvania’s environmental protection department. “It marks a real change in how we do things.”
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