Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of ca… Read Story
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with supporters of the state’s environmental rights amendment who invoked the landmark measure to pre… Read Story
The acreage of underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay declined 7% in 2020, the second consecutive year that the amount of critical underwate… Read Story
A new study supplies more evidence that oyster restoration efforts are having the desired impact in Maryland’s tidal rivers, forming better re… Read Story
If you have ordered something online and been amazed when it arrives at your doorstep the next day, you can probably thank a super-sized warehouse. Read Story
The invasive northern snakehead may not look terribly appetizing. To most people, it’s a creepy, toothy fish worthy of its “frankenfish” nickn… Read Story
For anyone who believes that Maryland’s laws adequately protect the environment and people’s health, state Del. Wanika Fisher has an invitatio… Read Story
This spring, William Harbold and his team of biologists with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources made a pair of thrilling discoveries… Read Story
New bacteria standards are in full effect this summer for freshwater swimming spots in Virginia rivers. Read Story
Amid indications that Maryland’s oyster population is on the rebound, state fisheries managers are easing some harvest limits they had imposed… Read Story
Maryland regulators are taking public comment again on plans to handle wastewater from a massive new development on the state’s Eastern Shore … Read Story
The Potomac Conservancy has released an analysis of the “new climate reality” that is already dawning on the Potomac River watershed, hoping t… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay’s “dead zone,” the oxygen-starved blob of water that waxes and wanes each summer, is forecast to be smaller than average fo… Read Story
Hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are spending their summers in Chesapeake Bay waters. And now, with the help of crowd-sourced sighting… Read Story
They are hunted, fed and photographed. They cause motorists to swerve and gardeners to curse. Read Story
The long-running Conowingo Dam controversy is back in court. On June 17, four environmental groups filed a legal challenge to the Federal Ener… Read Story
Throwing food away is more than wasteful. When it gets buried in a landfill, it generates methane, a climate-warming greenhouse gas many times… Read Story
When Machicomoco State Park opened April 16, it was ordained as Virginia’s 40th state park. But in Stephen Adkins’ eyes, it was the first — th… Read Story
Nearly a half-century ago, Pennsylvania began offering a 50% break on real estate taxes to farmers who enrolled in its Clean and Green program… Read Story
Amid signs of a significant but uneven rebound in Maryland’s oyster population, the state Department of Natural Resources is planning this fal… Read Story
On a warm spring morning, the fish were literally jumping in Mattawoman Creek. Anglers, both human and avian, flocked to the Potomac River tri… Read Story
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has tapped a Tennessee clean water advocate with experience in community engagement to head t… Read Story
Facing stiff opposition, Maryland officials have scaled back their plan to widen the infamously congested Capital Beltway around the District … Read Story
Scientists have long suspected that the tiny plastic particles floating in the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers — consumed by a growing number of… Read Story
Township supervisors near Gettysburg, PA, on June 3 pulled the plug on what could have been Pennsylvania’s largest solar energy project. Read Story
It’s going to take some time to figure out how — or even whether — lagging Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts can be put on track to reach the… Read Story
After years of study and legal wrangling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to use the federal Superfund cleanup program to… Read Story
A Maryland power plant has been releasing stormwater for years into a small Patuxent River town founded in the late 1920s as a vacation resort… Read Story
With mosquito season here again, there’s reason to wonder if the annual spraying of Chesapeake Bay watershed communities to control the pesky … Read Story
The number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay this winter plummeted to the fourth-lowest on record, driven largely by the worst-ever showing … Read Story
When a hiking guide stops dead in his tracks on a trail, it’s often to point out a rare salamander crossing the path or an endangered bird sin… Read Story
If a tree falls in the forest, Joan Maloof hears it. Sometimes, she even hears it before it has fallen. Read Story
Deal Island is disappearing beneath the Chesapeake Bay from the inside out. Read Story
It may seem odd that anyone would worry that the largest river on the East Coast, which discharges an average of more than 18 million gallons … Read Story
Those worried about the potential for water pollution from a massive residential and commercial development planned on Maryland’s Eastern Shor… Read Story
Governors from Chesapeake Bay watershed states are urging Congress to spend an additional billion dollars on Bay restoration efforts. Read Story
When Bruce Vogt launched his oyster farm a decade ago, he opted to raise his bivalves in a creek near the mouth of the York River because of i… Read Story
Early one April afternoon under a bright blue spring sky, Josh Cohn and Connor Lynch were bouncing a fishing jig off the bottom of the Potomac… Read Story
On a warm, sunny afternoon in June 2014, state, federal and local officials leading the long-running struggle to restore the Chesapeake Bay ga… Read Story
The Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, the Talbot County, MD, nonprofit that rose from the ashes of a family tragedy to become a leader in e… Read Story
Dredged up, dumped on and overgrown with invasive plants for decades, a pair of islands in the District of Columbia is about to get a long-awa… Read Story
Pennsylvania’s robust natural gas industry has been embarrassed by three environmental scandals in 15 months. Among the fallout: temporarily c… Read Story
A local chapter of the NAACP is appealing a state board’s decision to allow a Wegmans grocery distribution center to be built in Hanover County, VA. Read Story
A new facility that will convert tons of Delmarva Peninsula’s chicken manure and slaughterhouse waste into energy is closer to becoming a reality. Read Story
Unlike Maryland and Virginia, Pennsylvania has no dedicated funding to help farmers pay for conservation practices on their farms to prevent s… Read Story
Maryland lawmakers failed again this year to come together to strengthen the state’s goal for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissio… Read Story
The homesite where famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman likely spent time with her father before escaping slavery and leading others to freedom h… Read Story
With the Chesapeake Bay as a backdrop, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on world leaders April 19 to reduce greenhouse gas emissi… Read Story
People have been farming oysters in the Chesapeake Bay since at least the 1800s, and some of the methods and tools in use today haven’t changed much. Read Story
The U.S. Navy has reported finding high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in groundwater beneath its Patuxent River air base in Sout… Read Story