Throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, land use issues impacting clean water is omnipresent. These include positive impacts from properly-placed wind farms and solar fields, to negative impacts such as data centers, fossil fuel extraction, and pipelines. Collectively, decisions made on the land use front influences—for better or worse—public health, community development, environmental justice, local economies, wildlife conservation, and, of course, water quality.

Our goal is straightforward: Protect water resources from the significant landscape level impacts of land use decisions and extractive practices to support climate resilient communities and restore ecological harmony across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Land Use Policy Priority is a natural evolution of our collective work, and the Coalition is looking forward to the energy that transformation brings.

Land Use Workgroup

The goal of the Coalition’s Land Use Workgroup is to protect public health, communities, and regional water resources from the negative impacts of fossil fuel extraction and to promote clean and sustainable forms of energy.