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Last stand for eelgrass?

Last stand for eelgrass?

Karl Blankenship

Last stand for eelgrass?
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Oyster prices plummet as diners stay home amid pandemic

Oyster prices plummet as diners stay home amid pandemic

  • Jeremy Cox & Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated 5 hrs ago
  • 0

With several hours of daylight to spare, Ronnie Robbins and his son, Jason, had already docked their 36-foot deadrise workboat on Hooper’s Isl… Read Story

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Can the Bay region dredge its way out of Conowingo Dam problem?

Can the Bay region dredge its way out of Conowingo Dam problem?

  • Karl Blankenship
  • Updated Jan 20, 2021
  • 1

More pollution has been sweeping past the Conowingo Dam since its reservoir filled with sediment a decade ago, allowing millions of pounds of … Read Story

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VA board delays a permit decision on Wegmans project in Hanover County

VA board delays a permit decision on Wegmans project in Hanover County

  • Tamara Dietrich
  • Updated Jan 12, 2021
  • 0

A decision on whether to allow the Wegmans grocery chain to build a $175 million regional food distribution complex impacting forested wetland… Read Story

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States mull conservation action under shadow of COVID-19

States mull conservation action under shadow of COVID-19

  • Timothy B. Wheeler, Jeremy Cox & Ad Crable
  • Updated Jan 11, 2021
  • 0

Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state … Read Story

Lawsuit battles Trump administration rule that makes logging easier in national forests

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Updated Jan 20, 2021
  • 0

Several Virginia conservation organizations have joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn an 11th-hour Trump administration rule change that eases… Read Story

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‘Naturally Latinos’ conference fights for the environment – and against stereotypes

‘Naturally Latinos’ conference fights for the environment – and against stereotypes

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Updated Jan 8, 2021
  • 0

During its long and storied history, the Audubon Naturalist Society has counted among its active members such environmental luminaries as form… Read Story

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Chesapeake's health gets a D+ amid mixed progress, assessment finds

Chesapeake's health gets a D+ amid mixed progress, assessment finds

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Jan 6, 2021
  • 0

The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reported Monday, with upticks in wate… Read Story

For nutrient-laden Choptank River, cleanup takes a team

For nutrient-laden Choptank River, cleanup takes a team

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Dec 28, 2020
  • 0

Under a historic 2010 agreement, the states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin, along with the District of Columbia, embarked on an ambitiou… Read Story

Bay advocates look to Biden to help advance cleanup effort

Bay advocates look to Biden to help advance cleanup effort

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Jan 4, 2021
  • 0

After having made progress on a number of fronts during a Trump administration that was generally hostile to environmental spending and regula… Read Story

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Record-length stream restoration taking shape in PA

Record-length stream restoration taking shape in PA

  • Ad Crable
  • Dec 21, 2020
  • 0

What are the chances of getting 30 different landowners to participate in a 2.5-mile stream restoration project in suburban Lancaster, PA? Read Story

Group backs expanding MD limits on manure fertilizer use

Group backs expanding MD limits on manure fertilizer use

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Dec 17, 2020
  • 0

A Maryland advisory group has called for extending restrictions on the use of manure to fertilize farm fields, even though some warn the anti-… Read Story

Precision conservation comes into focus in Pennsylvania

Precision conservation comes into focus in Pennsylvania

  • Ad Crable
  • Dec 15, 2020
  • 0

Since 2016, the Chesapeake Conservancy has pioneered the use of highly detailed images of landscapes taken from low-flying airplanes to pinpoi… Read Story

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African American history focus of Bay mapping effort

African American history focus of Bay mapping effort

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Dec 14, 2020
  • 0

What isn’t known about the 400-year history of African Americans and the Chesapeake region could fill the Bay itself to overflowing. Read Story

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Virginia board rejects application for natural gas pipeline expansion project

Virginia board rejects application for natural gas pipeline expansion project

  • Tamara Dietrich
  • Updated Dec 14, 2020
  • 0

A contentious $346 million project to expand natural gas pipelines and infrastructure in Virginia took another hit last week when the State Co… Read Story

Naval power plant proposal tests Virginia on environmental justice

Naval power plant proposal tests Virginia on environmental justice

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Updated Jan 5, 2021
  • 0

In the first major test of Virginia’s historic environmental justice law, the state’s air board Dec. 3 approved a U.S. Navy proposal to build … Read Story

Wet weather overwhelms some Potomac River progress

Wet weather overwhelms some Potomac River progress

  • Whitney Pipkin
  • Dec 8, 2020
  • 0

After a decade of steady improvement,  the Potomac River’s progress seems to be plateauing. That’s according to the latest letter  grade — a B… Read Story

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Former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, early and tenacious Bay champion, dies

Former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, early and tenacious Bay champion, dies

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Updated Dec 7, 2020
  • 0

The Chesapeake Bay has lost one of its most vociferous advocates with the Dec. 6 death of former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Read Story

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Floods drive Binghamton toward sea change of resiliency

Floods drive Binghamton toward sea change of resiliency

  • Ad Crable
  • Updated Dec 14, 2020
  • 0

The Susquehanna River has the most flood prone basin east of the Mississippi. And Binghamton, NY, located entirely in a floodplain at the conf… Read Story

How regulators loosened pollution reins during early days of COVID-19

How regulators loosened pollution reins during early days of COVID-19

  • Jeremy Cox & Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Dec 9, 2020
  • 0

Dozens of power plants, factories and other facilities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed were given latitude to skip pollution-monitoring de… Read Story

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Eastern Shore pipeline gets key win in first round of votes

Eastern Shore pipeline gets key win in first round of votes

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Dec 3, 2020
  • 0

The Maryland Board of Public Works approved Dec. 2 a wetlands permit for an Eastern Shore natural gas pipeline, but critics say its constructi… Read Story

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DC spreads solar energy benefits through 'Solar for All'

DC spreads solar energy benefits through 'Solar for All'

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Dec 2, 2020
  • 0

Unlike most people, Sam Buggs actually looks forward to getting his electricity bill. Read Story

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Virginia to hire its first environmental justice director, despite budget constraints

Virginia to hire its first environmental justice director, despite budget constraints

  • Whitney Pipkin
  • Updated Dec 1, 2020
  • 0

Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality plans to fill a new environmental justice director position by early 2021 — despite budget shor… Read Story

USFWS adds black rails to “threatened” list, some say too late

USFWS adds black rails to “threatened” list, some say too late

  • Karl Blankenship
  • Nov 25, 2020
  • 0

Just five decades ago, Elliott Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was a global hotspot for avid birders who wanted to add the diminutive Easte… Read Story

Scenic designation would help protect lower Rappahannock

Scenic designation would help protect lower Rappahannock

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Nov 24, 2020
  • 0

An incomplete list of the adjectives used to describe the tidal portion of Virginia’s Rappahannock River over the years: free-flowing, fun, la… Read Story

EPA fights suit forcing it to act on Pennsylvania, New York cleanup plans

EPA fights suit forcing it to act on Pennsylvania, New York cleanup plans

  • Karl Blankenship
  • Updated Dec 2, 2020
  • 0

Federal attorneys are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from environmentalists and several Chesapeake Bay watershed states that aims to force the U… Read Story

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Hope for hemlocks: New tactics found to fight deadly pest

Hope for hemlocks: New tactics found to fight deadly pest

  • Ad Crable
  • Updated Dec 18, 2020
  • 2

Several new scientific discoveries give hope that eastern hemlocks will not go the way of chestnut, elm and ash trees and largely disappear fr… Read Story

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Death by plastic: Bay’s sea turtles, marine mammals imperiled by growing debris

Death by plastic: Bay’s sea turtles, marine mammals imperiled by growing debris

  • Tamara Dietrich
  • Updated Nov 23, 2020
  • 0

Six years ago, a young, emaciated sei whale that normally inhabits the deep waters of the Atlantic was spotted swimming erratically in tidal r… Read Story

This ‘lost’ river was bypassed for oyster restoration. Now, it’s done.

This ‘lost’ river was bypassed for oyster restoration. Now, it’s done.

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Updated Nov 19, 2020
  • 0

Environmentalists and scientists call it the “lost” branch. Read Story

New recipe: Fish consumption advisory substitutes safety for scare

New recipe: Fish consumption advisory substitutes safety for scare

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Nov 19, 2020
  • 0

Despite longstanding government alerts about the potential dangers of eating fish caught in the Anacostia River, some anglers aren’t getting t… Read Story

Military enlists help to solve eagle mystery at Patuxent runway

Military enlists help to solve eagle mystery at Patuxent runway

  • Whitney Pipkin
  • Nov 18, 2020
  • 0

Bald eagles don’t need a long runway to take flight, but they appear to enjoy hanging out on one anyway. Read Story

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‘Forever chemicals’ found in Chesapeake seafood and Maryland drinking water

‘Forever chemicals’ found in Chesapeake seafood and Maryland drinking water

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Nov 18, 2020
  • 0

More testing has found so-called “forever chemicals” in a striped bass, blue crab and oyster from the Chesapeake Bay, as well as in drinking w… Read Story

Blue catfish: When we can’t beat ’em, eat ’em

Blue catfish: When we can’t beat ’em, eat ’em

  • Karl Blankenship
  • Nov 17, 2020
  • 1

Blue catfish, the invasive fish with a big appetite that is overwhelming many Chesapeake Bay tributaries, is probably here to stay. Read Story

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‘We have to pivot’: Environmental ed during COVID-19

‘We have to pivot’: Environmental ed during COVID-19

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Updated Nov 16, 2020
  • 0

With a deadly pandemic racing across the country and beginning to surface in the surrounding community last spring, the tiny Maryland nonprofi… Read Story

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Nansemond’s shellfish woes point to upstream issues

Nansemond’s shellfish woes point to upstream issues

  • Whitney Pipkin
  • Nov 12, 2020
  • 0

Robert Johnson spends as much time watching the weather forecast as he does harvesting oysters these days. Read Story

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‘eDNA’ reveals what’s swimming in the water

‘eDNA’ reveals what’s swimming in the water

  • Ad Crable
  • Nov 11, 2020
  • 0

A new search tool involving not much more than filling a container of water is revolutionizing how scientists detect and keep track of threate… Read Story

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Public has another chance to weigh in on controversial Wegmans project in Virginia

Public has another chance to weigh in on controversial Wegmans project in Virginia

  • Tamara Dietrich
  • Updated Nov 11, 2020
  • 0

Stiff opposition to a proposed $175 million Wegmans regional food distribution complex in Hanover County, VA, has spurred officials to seek mo… Read Story

Climate change expected to make Bay cleanup 10% harder

Climate change expected to make Bay cleanup 10% harder

  • Karl Blankenship
  • Updated Nov 12, 2020
  • 0

It’s long been known that climate change would make the job of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay more difficult. Read Story

Zoning change denied for Eastern Shore salmon farm

Zoning change denied for Eastern Shore salmon farm

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Nov 9, 2020
  • 0

A Norwegian company’s plans to bring land-based salmon farming to Maryland’s Eastern Shore hit a snag Thursday night when one of the sites it … Read Story

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Baltimore naturalist transforms neglected land into ‘BLISS’

Baltimore naturalist transforms neglected land into ‘BLISS’

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Nov 9, 2020
  • 0

Growing up in Newark, NJ, Atiya Wells didn’t really connect much with nature. Read Story

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Oyster farming in Maryland might get harder

Oyster farming in Maryland might get harder

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Nov 5, 2020
  • 2

The Hogan administration is moving to block Maryland oyster farmers from leasing spots in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries where there’s… Read Story

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Chesapeake Bay Commission: 40 years of collaborative cleanup

Chesapeake Bay Commission: 40 years of collaborative cleanup

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Nov 12, 2020
  • 0

Rancor and partisan bickering may be de rigueur in politics these days, but the Chesapeake Bay Commission abides in a bubble of amicable colla… Read Story

Judge throws out lawsuit challenging the bulldozing of Maryland forest

Judge throws out lawsuit challenging the bulldozing of Maryland forest

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Nov 4, 2020
  • 0

In a case that aimed to test the enforceability of Maryland’s forest conservation law, a state court judge has thrown out a lawsuit challengin… Read Story

Solar siting in Maryland generates friction, threatening climate goals

Solar siting in Maryland generates friction, threatening climate goals

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Nov 3, 2020
  • 0

Despite Maryland’s ambitious commitment to renewable energy, solar power continues to generate friction across the state. Large utility-scale … Read Story

Added cleanup for pollution behind Conowingo Dam will cost $53 million a year. Who will pay for it?

Added cleanup for pollution behind Conowingo Dam will cost $53 million a year. Who will pay for it?

  • Karl Blankenship
  • Updated Nov 5, 2020
  • 3

The cost to reduce the added nutrient pollution spilling over the Conowingo Dam now has a price tag: at least $53 million a year. Read Story

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Shadows of a bustling past haunt Appomattox’s quiet shores

Shadows of a bustling past haunt Appomattox’s quiet shores

  • Tamara Dietrich
  • Oct 28, 2020
  • 0

In 1612, Capt. John Smith became the first European to produce a detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay region. He used the same mode of transport… Read Story

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Forests growing over shale bedrock help fight climate change

Forests growing over shale bedrock help fight climate change

  • Ad Crable
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 0

A swath of forests in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York and West Virginia store much more harmful carbon than surr… Read Story

Public input sought on future of Virginia’s Natural Bridge State Park

Public input sought on future of Virginia’s Natural Bridge State Park

  • Jeremy Cox
  • Oct 26, 2020
  • 0

One of the Chesapeake Bay watershed’s most stunning natural spectacles is at a crossroads, and officials are asking the public to help steer i… Read Story

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James River shad face upriver battle for comeback

James River shad face upriver battle for comeback

  • Whitney Pipkin
  • Oct 26, 2020
  • 0

A pair of professors at Randolph-Macon College near Richmond likes to challenge their students with real-world problems. When they asked the J… Read Story

Surveys find mixed spawning success for striped bass this year in Chesapeake

Surveys find mixed spawning success for striped bass this year in Chesapeake

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Updated Oct 22, 2020
  • 0

Striped bass can’t get a break, it seems. With their East Coast population in decline from overfishing, the migratory species had mixed succes… Read Story

Will loopholes in toxic discharge rule hurt regional waters?

Will loopholes in toxic discharge rule hurt regional waters?

  • Timothy B. Wheeler
  • Oct 22, 2020
  • 0

The Trump administration’s latest move to ease regulatory requirements on the nation’s coal-burning power plants is expected to have limited i… Read Story


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