Ten years ago, fed up with floating litter everywhere and frequent whiffs of sewage, Baltimore’s business, government and civic leaders launch… Read Story
Delaware lawmakers passed a law in 1991 requiring new housing subdivisions to install and maintain their own systems to collect and treat stormwater. Read Story
For nearly 25 years, Warwick Township has paid its own staff and eager grassroots volunteers to sample the water quality of Lititz Run, a spri… Read Story
The American shad’s Atlantic population remains at a historic low, despite longstanding commercial fishing bans in several states and millions… Read Story
Residents of the District of Columbia’s Hillcrest neighborhood could hardly see the unnamed stream, tucked deep into a small forested park, th… Read Story
Candida Garcia had never been involved in environmental causes. But over the past four years, she has founded a community garden, grilled loca… Read Story
With only a handful of large employers and Maryland’s highest poverty rate, Somerset County has come up empty for years in its efforts to attr… Read Story
Making good on threats issued months ago, three Chesapeake Bay watershed states, the District of Columbia and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to… Read Story
In a blistering report on Pennsylvania’s 12-year experience with hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a special statewide grand jury said pub… Read Story
It’s been a decade since the region renewed its commitment to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, with regional leaders promising to finish the job by 2025. Read Story
Joanne Tosti-Vasey, a local government leader in Centre County, PA, lives in the borough of Bellefonte (population 6,200) and has served on it… Read Story
It’s been 10 years since the Chesapeake Bay watershed was put on a “pollution diet.” And while there’s been some belt tightening since then, t… Read Story
Maryland poultry and livestock operations will soon begin paying a fee for water-pollution permits after a nearly year-long battle between its… Read Story
In Virginia, the future of natural gas depends on a highly volatile present. Read Story
A record $18 million in federal grant money is heading to Chesapeake Bay watershed groups and local governments this year under a 20-year-old … Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay is known to many for the seafood it produces: blue crabs, oysters and striped bass. Read Story
States and local jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are working toward water quality goals for the Bay and its rivers. The U.S. Env… Read Story
As climate change fuels flooding all over the country, one coping strategy is managed retreat: Local governments use federal funds to buy up w… Read Story
Increasingly, as enormous flotillas of plastic waste drifting through the ocean continue to make news, the world is learning that it is awash … Read Story
Crawdad, crawfish, crayfish. No matter what you call the crustaceans, the rusty crayfish, an interloper from the Ohio River watershed, has bec… Read Story
High levels of “forever chemicals” have been reported in freshwater fish and water from a Maryland creek, raising new questions about the exte… Read Story
In 1619, a privateer ship sailed into the Chesapeake Bay, carrying a transatlantic shipment of human cargo from Africa. At Point Comfort in so… Read Story
A bid by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration to spare poultry farmers from higher stormwater permit fees has hit a snag: the law. Read Story
Facing a tight deadline and a global pandemic, state biologists swooped in to preserve Virginia’s largest colony of nesting seabirds. Read Story
Historic Ellicott City has twice been ravaged by floods in recent years, but it escaped a repeat recently from Tropical Storm Isaias. While ot… Read Story
East Coast fishery managers have agreed to tie future menhaden population levels to the number needed to support a robust striped bass populat… Read Story
It’s been a slog, but efforts are making headway to rid the Anacostia River of long-banned toxic chemicals that make it unsafe to eat many loc… Read Story
President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Aug. 4, signed into law the Great American Outdoors Act. Read Story
When the American Farmland Trust recently assessed threats to farmland in Pennsylvania, it was surprised to find that urban sprawl and anemic … Read Story
One of every 3 miles of streams and rivers in Pennsylvania has impaired water quality, according to a draft report detailing the state’s lates… Read Story
Normally, fisheries management aims to set harvest limits at levels that sustain the population of a particular species. Read Story
It springs to life each year in freshwater ponds and lakes as temperatures rise. By the middle of summer, the foliage is so thick and bushy at… Read Story
One of Maryland’s fastest growing counties has moved to halt the loss of its woodlands to development, adopting what environmentalists are hai… Read Story
The U.S. House on Wednesday followed the Senate’s lead and overwhelmingly passed historic public lands legislation to guarantee federal funds … Read Story
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has made environmental justice a cornerstone of his administration. He revived his predecessor’s Council on Enviro… Read Story
It was a good idea at the time. In the mid-1800s, Pennsylvania’s cities and towns wanted to end the stench and slippery surfaces caused by ope… Read Story
New testing has detected “forever chemicals” in the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland, though at levels much lower than those reported the… Read Story
Those who live near the water around the Chesapeake Bay probably know this already, but now it’s official: Last year saw a lot more “sunny day… Read Story
Charles Morris, 77, can remember as a young boy picking berries before dawn in the deep woods off Sliding Hill Road in the rural, historic Bla… Read Story
When the mercury rises in midsummer, water quality in the Chesapeake Bay — as well as its streams and rivers — matters as much to people as it… Read Story
From Virginia to New York, residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed were hit with a deluge of water in mid-July 2018. And it wasn’t just anot… Read Story
Overwhelmed by record high flows and warm temperatures, the Chesapeake Bay’s vast underwater meadows last year suffered their largest drop sin… Read Story
Lynne Napoli of Boiling Springs, PA, lives near the Appalachian Trail, normally her refuge for quiet mental sustenance. Read Story
The big energy companies behind the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced July 5 they are dropping the controversial project, blaming leg… Read Story
Nearly half of all gamefish in freshwater lakes, streams and rivers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed may be unsafe to eat because of high level… Read Story
Chris Landis, a seventh-generation dairy and organic poultry farmer in Lancaster County, PA, had been up until 1 a.m. cutting hay by headlight… Read Story
Scientists are expecting this year’s Chesapeake Bay “dead zone” to be slightly less than its long-term average — but a wide swath of the Bay w… Read Story
The Assateague Island National Seashore along the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia and Maryland and the Appalachian Trail farther inland. Read Story
A major roadblock to the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been cleared by the U.S. Supreme Court, but other hurdles and legal c… Read Story
Restaurants, grocery stores and other food vendors in Maryland are getting three more months to comply with a statewide ban on foam containers. Read Story