William C. Baker
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William C. Baker is the president and CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Mr. Baker is Vice Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine (Hospital and Medical School), a board member of the Baltimore Community Foundation, a director of the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, and an Honorary Board Member of the Garden Club of America. He serves as a director of the Brown Advisory & Trust Company, and The Greater Washington Board of Trade Green Committee.
He is on the UMBC Board of Visitors, and served as a founding member of the Living Classrooms Foundation, the Metropolitan Washington Smart Growth Alliance, and the Institute for the Venice Lagoon.

A past trustee of Washington College, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Public Service there in 1991. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Baltimore, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from St. Mary’s College, a Washingtonian Magazine “"Washingtonian of the Year"” award, and the Speaker’s Medallion from the Maryland House of Delegates for outstanding contributions to the citizens of the state.

Blog Entries by William C. Baker

Debunking the Myth

Posted January 6, 2012 | 10:46:04 (EST)

Of late, the anti-environmental mantra has been 'environmental regulations kill jobs and damage the economy.'

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's recent report, titled Debunking the "Job Killer" Myth; How Pollution Limits Encourage Jobs in the Chesapeake Bay Region, examines this claim and finds it to be false.

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Be Careful What You Cut

Posted October 26, 2011 | 15:02:29 (EST)

This week, anyone who cares about clean water ought to pay attention.

Since 1965, Congress has re-evaluated federal farm programs every five years or so and appropriated hundreds of billions of public tax dollars to commodities, insurance, and conservation programs for the nation's farming community. The normal...

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Chesapeake Bay Under Agri-Chemical Attack

7 Comments | Posted October 12, 2011 | 13:09:54 (EST)

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, H. L. Mencken's "immense protein factory," Ronald Reagan's "special national resource," home to 17 million people, and worth an estimated $1 trillion.

Nature gave our Chesapeake Bay a body blow at the end of the...

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