Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2020 report card: Bay gets D+
(WorldNews Environment)

ANNAPOLIS -- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation graded the Chesapeake Bay with another low mark for 2020: scoring its overall health with a 32, or a D+, one point lower than the grade it earned in 2018. The pollutants nitrogen and phosphorous made significant progress. Both had large decreases in pollution flow into the Bay from 2018. Still, nitrogen earned the grade of a D and phosphorous an F. Wetlands (C), forest buffers (B) and underwater grasses (D-) mostly remained unchanged from 2018. Deadzones, or low-oxygen areas, earned a C, and the decrease of deadzones in Maryland is among the lowest the state has seen since the 1980s. Rockfish, or striped bass, was the biggest concern for CBF as...