Under pressure from homebuilders, officials in Delaware’s fastest-growing county have approved new regulations for construction near wetlands … Read Story
Growing up near the shipyards that snake along Norfolk’s waterfront, Kalen Anderson pictured himself working there some day as a welder. He pu… Read Story
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it would spend an additional $22.5 million this year to help farmers install conserva… Read Story
Aquatic forage species — the small fish, worms and other out-of-sight species that feed all the others — are the lifeblood of the Chesapeake B… Read Story
Nearly $48 million is on the way to help protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay by underwriting a variety of projects across the estuary's 64,… Read Story
Pennsylvania’s failure to live up to its Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations means farmers, wastewater plant operators and industries are more … Read Story
A solar power boom generated by new renewable energy mandates is unfurling in the Chesapeake Bay region. Virginia, for example, was ninth in t… Read Story
Some property owners along Virginia’s tidal waterways are concerned that a recent change in state law has muddied the waters for managing thei… Read Story
With seven volunteers gathered around him in Pennsylvania’s Michaux State Forest, Tom Moutsos apologized in advance for ruining the group’s fu… Read Story
The new director of Virginia’s top environmental agency seemed to be stating the obvious when he said at a conference in late March that “wate… Read Story
After more than 2 years in legal and legislative battles, Pennsylvania is poised to become the twelfth state to join the carbon-cutting effort… Read Story
Maryland waterman enjoyed the best wild oyster season last fall and winter that they’ve had in 35 years, according to preliminary state data, … Read Story
The Federal Highway Administration has given preliminary approval to Maryland’s plans build to a new Chesapeake Bay bridge near the existing t… Read Story
It’s been nearly six years since city officials in Martinsburg, WV, learned that one of the wells supplying drinking water to their community … Read Story
Pennsylvania’s latest Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan still falls short of its assigned goals, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agen… Read Story
In low-lying spots bordering the Chesapeake Bay, it’s easy to spot the dead trees, leafless and shorn of limbs. These “ghost forests,” their g… Read Story
After two years of frustration, Maryland environmental advocates have much to celebrate after the conclusion earlier this week of what one cal… Read Story
States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stick with the cooperative strategy they’ve crea… Read Story
“Bienvenidos al Rio Anacostia!” Read Story
The Biden administration announced that it is expanding the number of visas available this spring and summer to temporary foreign workers, han… Read Story
If hope springs eternal, spring brings eternal hope to Paul Spadaro. Read Story
Starting a three-day swing through farm country in Lancaster County, PA, Adam Ortiz spent a bone-chilling spring morning at a small dairy, lea… Read Story
It all begins with a single, innocuous raindrop. Read Story
Pennsylvania and Delaware have joined a growing list of states moving to set enforceable limits in drinking water for two “forever chemicals,”… Read Story
The rollout of solar and other renewable energy projects that Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are counting on to end fossil-fuel reliance … Read Story
Nearly 400 years after it was wrested away, a large portion of one of the most spectacular landmarks in Virginia’s Tidewater region is back in… Read Story
The Maryland Senate on a March 31 party-line vote passed sweeping climate legislation, setting up a political showdown with Gov. Larry Hogan, … Read Story
Time was running out to save the last vestige of a rollicking African American getaway on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort is slated to get increased federal funding this year, though less than advocates had been hoping for jus… Read Story
Pennsylvania is updating its 21-year-old environmental justice policy to include communities located near natural gas drilling and those dispr… Read Story
For environmental advocates, the just-concluded Virginia legislative session had its victories, highlighted by repelling a former Trump offici… Read Story
A handful of proposed projects are turning Prince William County, VA, into the next frontier for debates over appropriate data center developm… Read Story
In a dramatic enforcement action, Maryland regulators moved Sunday to take over Baltimore’s troubled Back River sewage treatment plant after a… Read Story
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted a Pennsylvania state representative to seek legislation to increase fracking for natural gas. Read Story
Warning of worsening problems at Baltimore’s troubled Back River sewage treatment plant, Maryland Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles ordered c… Read Story
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to clean up a contaminated creek bottom near Baltimore while also proposing to act on pollu… Read Story
When Congress hit the start button one year ago on a massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid measure, it also sent a surge of spending toward envir… Read Story
Maryland’s crab industry is once again calling for help. Read Story
Enforcement of water pollution laws in Maryland has trended downward over the last two decades but has nosedived under the Hogan administrati… Read Story
Facing a greater degree of sea level rise than almost any other part of the country, Norfolk is on the verge of launching a $1.6 billion count… Read Story
The mostly forested NASA property in the headwaters of the Anacostia River that conservationists feared could be bulldozed has won yet another… Read Story
In an effort to combat climate change, some owners of small forests in Chesapeake Bay drainage states are being paid to either delay harvestin… Read Story
Hunting for sunken treasure evokes a sense of mystery. On a cold day in early February, there was plenty. Read Story
A property in the northern corner of Orange County, VA, that borders the Rapidan River was once the center of a gold-mining boom in the state.… Read Story
Plastics swirling around in ocean gyres have garnered plenty of recent media and research attention. But what happens to the pieces that flow … Read Story
Taking a walk in the woods isn’t as simple as it should be for residents of Ward 8 in the District of Columbia. Read Story
Dominion Energy wants to create a permanent solution for a decades-long pileup of coal ash by building a new, lined landfill on its Possum Poi… Read Story
The Chesapeake region may be further away from meeting its 2025 Bay cleanup goals than previously estimated. Read Story
The legal cloud over oyster restoration work on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore may be dissipating. The state’s second highest court has overru… Read Story
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act recently passed by Congress is sending an unprecedented $6.4 billion for abandoned mi… Read Story