When Going Green Means Going Into The Red: Pennsylvania's Struggle Funding Stormwater Regulations Creates Water Woes For MS4S

This Comment argues that Pennsylvania’s strategy for meeting Chesapeake Bay pollution-reduction goals places excessive financial burdens on municipalities while inadequately addressing agricultural runoff, the watershed’s largest pollution source. Examining stormwater regulations, NPDES permitting, municipal funding challenges, and agricultural conservation programs, the Comment contends that the Commonwealth’s reliance on increasingly stringent requirements for municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) is both inequitable and unlikely to achieve long-term compliance. It concludes that Pennsylvania must strengthen oversight and accountability for agricultural pollution sources to meet its Chesapeake Bay restoration obligations effectively.[This abstract was written by Microsoft Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence.]