Delaware Gov. John Carney unveiled in early November the state’s most comprehensive plan yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow the e… Read Story
Maryland’s environmental chief vowed to make immediate reforms at his agency as he faced sharp questions Jan. 18 from state lawmakers frustrat… Read Story
It’s hard to come together over oysters in Maryland. Two years ago, seeking to get past seemingly endless conflicts between environmentalists … Read Story
Pennsylvania, long criticized for its lack of Chesapeake Bay cleanup progress, submitted an updated strategy to the U.S. Environmental Protect… Read Story
As lawmakers in Chesapeake Bay watershed states convene in the new year, a variety of environmental issues are expected to come up for debate … Read Story
A Texas-based energy company wants to build a $6 billion facility that would produce gasoline from natural gas near the Susquehanna River in n… Read Story
Maryland regulators have let a problem-plagued Eastern Shore poultry rendering plant resume operations two days after ordering it shut down be… Read Story
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has taken the unusual step of voiding a contract with a firm it had hired to conduct a “third-party” … Read Story
Maryland regulators have ordered a shutdown of a problem-plagued Eastern Shore chicken rendering plant after a tip from an environmental group… Read Story
The Virginia State Water Control Board approved in mid-December new criteria aimed at reducing the amount of algae plaguing the James River. T… Read Story
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science plans to open a new oyster-breeding and research facility at its Gloucester Point campus by spring 2022. Read Story
Michael Regan, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, officially took the helm Dec. 15 of the Chesapeake Executive Council, the boa… Read Story
Long considered a laggard in Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts, Pennsylvania last year led the watershed in nitrogen reductions reported by the s… Read Story
Most people in Chesapeake Bay watershed states have never walked through an old-growth forest — which is to say they have never experienced na… Read Story
Those sneakers are going to be hard to fill. Read Story
A sand and gravel mine on the Eastern Shore of Maryland spilled so much sediment-loaded wash water that waterways up to 11 miles away turned a… Read Story
Jamestown’s story is overflowing with twists and turns. So, why not one more? Read Story
Will Baker never intended to become an environmental activist. He studied art in college and planned to become an architect, like his older br… Read Story
Mary Farley Ames Lee did not want her 662 acres to become a series of waterfront subdivisions. Before her death in 1999, she went to great len… Read Story
Three environmental organizations are suing Virginia’s Henrico County in federal court over a history of sewage overflows and pollution discha… Read Story
Two environmental groups are challenging new stormwater management requirements Maryland regulators have issued for Baltimore city and Baltimo… Read Story
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board in a 6–1 vote on Friday denied a permit to the proposed Lambert compressor station that would pump ga… Read Story
For decades, Pennsylvania has barely made a dent in stopping pollution from hundreds of thousands of abandoned or orphaned oil and gas wells. … Read Story
Large white shrimp — the kind that might star in a white-wine scampi — have been riding warmer waters into the Chesapeake Bay in growing numbe… Read Story
A new report finds that Maryland state agencies regularly cite Eastern Shore poultry operations for pollution permit violations but rarely han… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay’s three largest rivers — the Susquehanna, Potomac and James — are showing long-term reductions in nutrient pollution, accor… Read Story
This year, the oxygen-deprived “dead zone” that plagues the Chesapeake Bay every summer was much larger than in 2020, but similar in size with… Read Story
It‘s an oyster farmer’s worst nightmare. More than two dozen people got sick in early November after eating raw oysters from a Southern Maryla… Read Story
Birdsong is the soundtrack of life in the country, and a coalition of conservation groups aims to keep it that way. Read Story
Not long after Sterling Rollings bought a 100-year-old cottage in Portsmouth, VA, on the Elizabeth River — his first waterfront property — his… Read Story
The newest tool to get more farmers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to inject their manure into, rather than onto, their fields was trotted ou… Read Story
The massive infrastructure bill President Biden signed into law on Nov. 15 will give a big boost in federal funding for Chesapeake Bay restora… Read Story
The Audubon Naturalist Society, one of the oldest independent environmental groups in the Chesapeake Bay region, announced it will be changing… Read Story
Chesapeake Bay summer water temperatures are increasing by nearly a half degree Fahrenheit per decade and rising nearly twice as fast as globa… Read Story
When it comes to restoring the Chesapeake Bay’s oysters, size matters. State and federal agencies are pouring tens of millions of dollars coll… Read Story
Maryland’s oyster restoration efforts on the Lower Eastern Shore have been put on hold — at least for now — by a court order barring the state… Read Story
The debate over whether to again allow briny, sometimes radioactive, wastewater pumped from conventional oil and gas wells to be spread on Pen… Read Story
It was hard to hear Tracy Garrett and Celestine Brown describe how bad the traffic is on the narrow two-lane road running past their homes in … Read Story
Rising seas are engulfing Tangier Island so quickly that most of its remaining residents may be forced to flee the low-lying Chesapeake Bay co… Read Story
A quest for the ultimate blue crab. An unprecedented marathon effort to cultivate crustaceans in a lab. A supercomputer crunching data night a… Read Story
The Maryland darter, one of the rarest fish in the world, has been missing in action for 33 years. Now, it is headed to the extinction list. T… Read Story
Holly Gaff and Tori Rose were hunting for ticks in a pine needle-strewn forest in a nature preserve on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Their first h… Read Story
Almost four years after agreeing to develop a plan to offset added water pollution caused by the filling of the Conowingo Dam reservoir, leade… Read Story
Hilary Harp Falk, a top executive with the nation’s largest conservation group, has been tapped to be the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s next pre… Read Story
Until recently, the West River United Methodist Center had a problem. The 45-acre retreat and camp facility in Shady Side, MD, south of Annapo… Read Story
Climate experts have long warned that rising seas could add more destructive power to hurricane-whipped storm surges. But a new study centered… Read Story
To save the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s limited drinking water, it’s time for chicken farms to tap into an alternative supply, officials say. Read Story
Anglers who fish Piscataway Creek off the Potomac River are being warned to limit their consumption of what they catch after Maryland regulato… Read Story
Federal and local governments are preparing to spend an estimated $34 million on stream restorations in two branches of the Anacostia River, w… Read Story
A decade ago, Steve Minkkinen and a team of biologists pulled into a boat ramp along a tributary to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River i… Read Story