   Bay Health Update: Promises Unkept  If you hadn’t heard that
the Chesapeake Bay restoration was failing, last week provided
one of those a-ha! moments when things become painfully clear.
At a gathering of Bay state political leaders down in Richmond,
Gov. Robert Ehrlich and his counterparts acknowledged that their
plan for a federal rescue of the Chesapeake had fallen by the
wayside. Ehrlich blamed shifting priorities in Washington.
Meanwhile, in testimony in Washington that drew little
attention, the Government Accountability Office delivered a
withering assessment of the federal Chesapeake Bay Program,
which is housed within the Environmental Protection Agency.
Speaking in front of a House Appropriations subcommittee, GAO
natural resources director Anu Mittal recalled some of the sad
facts of an earlier GAO investigation:  • The federal government
has a slew of measures (more than 100) to assess trends but no
means to integrate them in a way that tells us whether we’re
making progress;  • The annual S