Bay Journal

Improvements in water quality an added benefit of air pollution regs

People across the Bay watershed have, over the last decade, slashed the amount of nitrogen pollution they generate, mostly without realizing it.

For that matter, so have people in Ohio, North Carolina, parts of Michigan and even Toronto.

Every time they flick on a light, drive their car, or even mow their lawn, they are producing dramatically less nitrogen pollution than was the case little more than a decade ago.

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Karl Blankenship
June 08, 2013
Pollution

Backlash from stormwater fee catches advocates off guard - Rona Kobell | 06/09/13

B-WET, which funds students’ Bay education, faces elimination - Staff and Wire Reports | 06/08/13

Student immerse themselves in plankton study - Karl Blankenship | 06/08/13

Ghost pots estimated to kill 1.25 million blue crabs in VA’s Bay waters - Karl Blankenship | 06/08/13

Dam relicensing acknowledges that with power comes responsibility - Karl Blankenship | 06/08/13

Even the animals pitch in at this Bay-friendly farm in PA - Rona Kobell | 06/08/13

Baltimore preparing a TMDL to clean up trash in its water - Carrie Madren | 06/08/13

Sick smallmouth bass spur effort to seek impaired status for Susquehanna - Rona Kobell | 06/08/13

More News

Swim Guide app lets users know if local beach is safe to swim in - Rona Kobell | 06/08/13
Top MD court to decide if Lake Bonnie pollution suit has merit - Rona Kobell | 06/08/13
MD to cut female blue crab harvest by 10% to bolster reproduction - Rona Kobell | 06/08/13
Chesapeake SAV plunges to lowest levels since 1986 - Karl Blankenship | 05/01/13
Maryland, Pennsylvania name new leaders for environmental department positions - Rona Kobell | 04/30/13
Flyway winter waterfowl survey counts more geese but fewer ducks - Staff and Wire Reports | 04/30/13
Bay’s blue crab numbers drop; robust female population offers hope - Karl Blankenship | 04/30/13
Invisible microplastics a threat to bottom of marine food web - Karl Blankenship | 04/28/13
It’s time to pay the piper as cities’ aging infrastructures need updating - Rona Kobell | 04/28/13
New techniques sharply reduce cost of controlling stormwater runoff - Karl Blankenship | 04/28/13

The Chesapeake's latest reality stars are ospreys Tom & Audrey — until their chicks hatch and steal the show! If you haven't already, visit www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/Osprey-Cam, where the Chesapeake...
Kathleen Gaskell | Bay Buddies 06/08/13

Ospreys are Eggs-cellent! - Kathleen Gaskell | Chesapeake Challenge 06/08/13
A pollinator garden in one’s yard may help save plants everywhere - Kathy Reshetiloff | Bay Naturalist 06/08/13
Blue-gray gnatcatcher: big surprises in a tiny package - Michael Burke | On the Wing 06/08/13
Journey of shorebirds, horseshoe crabs to shore linked through the ages - Kathy Reshetiloff | Bay Naturalist 05/01/13
Canada warbler: right place at right time in right frame of mind - Michael Burke | On the Wing 05/01/13
Mountains! - Kathleen Gaskell | Bay Buddies 04/30/13
Peak Performance - Kathleen Gaskell | Chesapeake Challenge 04/30/13
Vernal ponds spring to life with peepers’ serenades - Kathy Reshetiloff | Bay Naturalist 04/01/13
Yellow warbler’s song means mellow days of spring can’t be too far behind - Michael Burke | On the Wing 04/01/13

Opinion

Climate change is the real bogeyman, not nuclear energy

For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet we also know that nuclear power provides 70...
Tom Horton | Chesapeake Born 06/08/13

Reducing stormwater heals people, economy not just waterways - Alison Prost | Forum 06/08/13
Otters: the furry brown canary in Bay watershed’s streams - Cindy Ross | Forum 06/08/13
Choose plants to honor those you’ve picked as friends - Tom Horton | Chesapeake Born 05/05/13
It’s time for us to go to war again over American shad - Kate Livie | Forum 05/05/13
New rules for stormwater expected to increase reductions - Lee R Epstein | Forum 04/01/13
Energy-to-manure: Megawatts, mega-bucks without mega-pollution - Tom Horton | Chesapeake Born 04/01/13
Omega Protein makes good on threat to cut jobs; but it doesn’t have to - Alison Fairbrother | Forum 03/31/13
Signs of resilience amid Chesapeake’s troubles cause for optimism - Nick DiPasquale | Around the Watershed 03/01/13
Shelling out more oysters to improve the Chesapeake Bay - Cari Ruppert | Forum 03/01/13

Travel

From top of bluffs to its marshes, Elk Neck commands one’s attention

Fannie Mae Salter was not a woman to take no for an answer. When her husband C.W. "Harry" Salter died in 1925, she thought she would stay on as keeper of the Turkey Point Lighthouse in the Upper Bay. But the Lighthouse...
Karl Blankenship | Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network 06/08/13

Fort Washington now a peaceful oasis just outside DC - Lara Lutz | Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network 04/30/13
Visitors learn it’s all about the wildlife at Patuxent Research Refuge - Rona Kobell | Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network 03/01/13
Snow better way to camp - Tom Horton | Bay Journeys Article 01/01/13
Duck, Duck, Goose - Rona Kobell | Bay Journeys Article 01/01/13
Sotterley’s river of freedom - Lara Lutz | Bay Journeys Article 01/01/13
At Calvert Cliffs, visitors look forward to encountering sharks’ teeth - Lara Lutz | Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network 11/01/12
At Chippokes Plantation, visitors feast on slices of natural, agricultural history - Leslie Middleton | Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network 10/01/12
Skipjacks dredge up nautical heritage for guests - Lara Lutz | Bay Journeys Article 07/30/12
The forgotten war that turned us into Americans - Lara Lutz | Bay Journeys Article 07/30/12