Efforts that will plant forest buffers along streams, remove barriers to fish migration, engage underserved communities and accelerate nutrien… Read Story
After years of spills, sinkholes and contaminated drinking water, Pennsylvania’s attorney general has filed 48 criminal charges against the ow… Read Story
The vast majority of plastic pollution that makes its way into the rivers of the Chesapeake Bay stays in and along local waters and is not, as… Read Story
The governors of the states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin have inked a bipartisan pledge with the federal government to keep climate ch… Read Story
In Virginia, the state environmental agency this spring created an environmental justice office, tasking it with developing a plan to address … Read Story
Reeling from invasive species on land, water and air, Pennsylvania is accelerating its efforts to combat hundreds of non-native plants, insect… Read Story
As the heat index crept toward 104 degrees on a mid-August afternoon, it was easy to feel what the freshwater mussels nestled into a nearby st… Read Story
Maryland residents concerned about the water-quality impacts of a large housing and commercial development on the Eastern Shore have three new… Read Story
Opponents of a development that would bulldoze woodlands near the head of the Chesapeake Bay have another chance to speak out on the controver… Read Story
Consumers in some Northern Virginia communities will have to pay for plastic bags starting next year. Read Story
Bluehearts, slender dayflower, northern hound’s tongue, tall bentgrass, bearberry Manzanita, creeping sedge, small white lady’s slipper, Leibe… Read Story
After years of complaints from its neighbors, state regulators have ordered a controversial poultry rendering plant on Maryland’s Eastern Shor… Read Story
The long-running effort to get American shad back to their historic spawning grounds this year enlisted a tool that had been abandoned two dec… Read Story
William Tayloe Murphy, Jr., a towering figure in Virginia’s environmental protection efforts who spearheaded the passage of numerous pieces of… Read Story
Toxic “forever chemicals” are turning up in more and more places as the federal government joins a growing number of states, including Pennsyl… Read Story
In a major shift in strategy as the Chesapeake region nears its 2025 Bay cleanup deadline, Pennsylvania has switched to an approach that gives… Read Story
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking public comments on its proposal to use federal funds to deal with contaminated sediments in… Read Story
Across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, dams are being demolished to restore fish habitat and remove potential threats to the safety of swimmers.… Read Story
Restoring the Chesapeake Bay’s depleted underwater meadows is a painstaking process, requiring lots of elbow grease, savvy and patience. Parad… Read Story
Carpets of grass-colored algae have long plagued the Shenandoah River in Virginia, making it unpleasant to be on the water during some of the … Read Story
It seemed like an inauspicious start to a morning of birding. Read Story
Bob and Kathy Leaman, a couple from Lancaster County, PA, wanted a private place to build their dream home. They ended up buying an 88-acre Am… Read Story
The state-federal partnership overseeing the Chesapeake Bay cleanup has released details on how it plans to increase diversity and inclusion w… Read Story
Baltimore has long been plagued by sewage leaks and overflows fouling its waters. Now, the city has a new pollution woe: poorly maintained mun… Read Story
A federal judge in Arizona has thrown out the Trump administration’s 2020 rollback of a federal law designed to protect rivers, streams and wetlands. Read Story
David Harris grew up on a farm next door to the Naval Research Laboratory - Chesapeake Bay Detachment. He recalls camping with his scout troop… Read Story
Climate change is clearly observable in every region of the planet, and the window is closing for nations to take actions that would stem the … Read Story
We hear that pollinators are in dire straits while harmful, invasive insects seem to be proliferating. But how are all the other bugs doing? Read Story
A company planning to bring one of two natural gas-fired power plants to Charles City County, VA, said this summer it is abandoning the projec… Read Story
Virginia lawmakers in a special session in August funneled significant portions of federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act toward proj… Read Story
Striped bass catches were down along the Atlantic coast last year, an early sign that tough regulations imposed across 15 states are helping t… Read Story
Florida wildlife officials on Feb. 5 rescued an 1,100-pound male manatee in Florida after he was spotted swimming sideways, a signal of distre… Read Story
After hitting a temporary roadblock, the Hogan administration’s hotly disputed “traffic relief plan” for widening congested highways in Maryla… Read Story
After two Pennsylvania Supreme Court victories, an emboldened environmental group is asking a court to force the state to return $1.3 billion … Read Story
Across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, dams are being demolished to restore fish habitat and remove potential threats to the safety of swimmers.… Read Story
One of Maryland’s most recognizable waterfront townscapes is getting harder to see. Portions of the Annapolis City Dock are underwater 50–60 d… Read Story
Opponents of a sprawling Wegmans distribution center slated for Hanover County, VA, say new developments underline their concerns about the pr… Read Story
The Senate Appropriations Committee has signed off on $37.5 million in spending that could launch the reconstruction of James and Barren islan… Read Story
The struggling Chesapeake Bay restoration effort stands to get a hefty infusion of funding from the ambitious $1.2 trillion infrastructure dea… Read Story
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