Where a Maryland startup sees a green upgrade — a biofuel facility near the Nanticoke River that could prevent up to 220,000 tons per year of … Read Story
New York has submitted a revised Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan which, unlike the one completed in 2019, meets the state’s goals for helping to r… Read Story
Scientists are still trying to sort out exactly what’s causing sexual abnormalities among smallmouth bass in Chesapeake Bay rivers, but they m… Read Story
A federal judge has ruled that a Pennsylvania chicken processing plant polluted a stream, the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay with nutrie… Read Story
Maryland transportation officials recommend building a new Chesapeake Bay bridge at the site of the existing two spans that cross between Anne… Read Story
He wants to shut down a trash incinerator, reduce his city’s waste to zero, increase the amount of affordable housing and get abandoned mattre… Read Story
John Naylor eased his 16-foot fiberglass canoe into the Susquehanna River near a small archipelago of forested and ever-changing mudflat islan… Read Story
Growing threats to the environment — from warming temperatures to melting icecaps, rising seas to more intense storms and floods — have increa… Read Story
Pennsylvania was one of the top 10 states receiving the most dollars from outdoor recreation in 2019, ranking sixth in the nation with $13 bil… Read Story
President Joe Biden’s pick to run the U.S. Environmental Agency has pledged to marshal the agency’s resources to help meet the 2025 goal for c… Read Story
Hoping to reverse a serious threat to the health of Northern Virginia streams, state officials have assembled a hefty toolkit aimed at helping… Read Story
To beachbound travelers, Trappe may be little more than a “speed awareness zone” encountered on their drive to Ocean City, MD. As U.S. Route 5… Read Story
Despite setbacks and cancellations to some high-profile natural gas pipelines, a project on the Delmarva Peninsula has overcome strong resista… Read Story
Will Baker, who’s led the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for the last 40 years, announced last week that he plans to step down at the end of 2021 a… Read Story
As a kid growing up on Bald Top Mountain above the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, Van Wagner would look down during times of low water to … Read Story
Pollution keeps flowing past the Conowingo Dam toward the Chesapeake Bay but it’s unclear who is going to pay to offset it. A new strategy, th… Read Story
Democrats and Republicans may not agree on much these days, but in the Maryland General Assembly lawmakers of both parties have come together … Read Story
It was a bad sign last spring when Bob Orth answered the phone and the words spilled out from the other end. “Where did all the grass go?” The… Read Story
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
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
A decision on whether to allow the Wegmans grocery chain to build a $175 million regional food distribution complex impacting forested wetland… Read Story
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state … Read Story
Several Virginia conservation organizations have joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn an 11th-hour Trump administration rule change that eases… Read Story
During its long and storied history, the Audubon Naturalist Society has counted among its active members such environmental luminaries as form… Read Story
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
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
After having made progress on a number of fronts during a Trump administration that was generally hostile to environmental spending and regula… Read Story
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
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
Since 2016, the Chesapeake Conservancy has pioneered the use of highly detailed images of landscapes taken from low-flying airplanes to pinpoi… Read Story
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dozens of power plants, factories and other facilities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed were given latitude to skip pollution-monitoring de… Read Story
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
Unlike most people, Sam Buggs actually looks forward to getting his electricity bill. Read Story
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality plans to fill a new environmental justice director position by early 2021 — despite budget shor… Read Story
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
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
Federal attorneys are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from environmentalists and several Chesapeake Bay watershed states that aims to force the U… Read Story
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
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
Environmentalists and scientists call it the “lost” branch. Read Story
Despite longstanding government alerts about the potential dangers of eating fish caught in the Anacostia River, some anglers aren’t getting t… Read Story
Bald eagles don’t need a long runway to take flight, but they appear to enjoy hanging out on one anyway. Read Story
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, the invasive fish with a big appetite that is overwhelming many Chesapeake Bay tributaries, is probably here to stay. Read Story