The Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, the Talbot County, MD, nonprofit that rose from the ashes of a family tragedy to become a leader in e… Read Story
Dredged up, dumped on and overgrown with invasive plants for decades, a pair of islands in the District of Columbia is about to get a long-awa… Read Story
Pennsylvania’s robust natural gas industry has been embarrassed by three environmental scandals in 15 months. Among the fallout: temporarily c… Read Story
A local chapter of the NAACP is appealing a state board’s decision to allow a Wegmans grocery distribution center to be built in Hanover County, VA. Read Story
A new facility that will convert tons of Delmarva Peninsula’s chicken manure and slaughterhouse waste into energy is closer to becoming a reality. Read Story
Unlike Maryland and Virginia, Pennsylvania has no dedicated funding to help farmers pay for conservation practices on their farms to prevent s… Read Story
Maryland lawmakers failed again this year to come together to strengthen the state’s goal for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissio… Read Story
The homesite where famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman likely spent time with her father before escaping slavery and leading others to freedom h… Read Story
With the Chesapeake Bay as a backdrop, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on world leaders April 19 to reduce greenhouse gas emissi… Read Story
People have been farming oysters in the Chesapeake Bay since at least the 1800s, and some of the methods and tools in use today haven’t changed much. Read Story
The U.S. Navy has reported finding high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in groundwater beneath its Patuxent River air base in Sout… Read Story
Three environmental groups have moved to file a lawsuit against a Virginia company that operates a chicken rendering plant on Maryland’s Easte… Read Story
In the neighborhood straddling MD Route 26 in West Baltimore, just north of the Mondawmin Mall, residents grapple daily with dirty air, vehicl… Read Story
The Maryland Department of the Environment plans to appeal a state judge’s ruling that the agency must account for ammonia discharges to the a… Read Story
A railroad running through the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was once the lifeblood of a string of small towns along a winding fork o… Read Story
Will the acid mine drainage that pollutes thousands of miles of streams in Pennsylvania and Western Maryland ever be erased? Will remaining co… Read Story
After 17 years nestled underground, Brood X is returning. Read Story
Everyone who lives or works in the Washington, DC area knows that driving on the Capital Beltway can be a bumper-to-bumper nightmare, and not … Read Story
The owners of the closed Luke paper mill in Western Maryland have agreed to clean up toxic pollution that has been seeping into the Potomac Ri… Read Story
A visit to the Tidal Basin in the District of Columbia should deliver sweeping views of cherry trees heavy with pink and white blooms this tim… Read Story
Environmentalists and farmers have long been at loggerheads over agricultural best management practices. It’s where environmentalism comes up … Read Story
The Virginia State Supreme Court has ruled that a waterman does not have the right to be compensated for property damages if the oyster ground… Read Story
Pennsylvania officials today announced what they say is the largest purchase of solar energy ever by a state, committing to buy enough electri… Read Story
Dana Aunkst, who has served as director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Office since December 2018, announced tha… Read Story
Federal regulators have approved the relicensing of the Conowingo Dam, blessing a controversial deal that Maryland reached with the dam’s owne… Read Story
By all accounts, Jabez Branch needs help. Read Story
Maryland regulators want to give nearly $13 million to a private company to help it clean up nutrient pollution from an Eastern Shore chicken … Read Story
The Maryland Senate voted Friday to ramp up Maryland’s efforts to fight climate change over the next decade, passing a sweeping bill that call… Read Story
Work is set to resume by early April on the protracted restoration of oyster reefs in Maryland’s Tred Avon River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engin… Read Story
A Maryland judge has dealt a blow to the state’s poultry industry, ordering regulators to impose limits for the first time on air pollution em… Read Story
The first inkling that something was afoot last September was the sound of thumping and whirring in the woods on the other side of Queens Cree… Read Story
In dozens of old coal mining towns in Pennsylvania and Western Maryland, black dust swirling off of naked piles of coal waste — called “bony p… Read Story
Virginia lawmakers voted to ban releases of nonbiodegradable balloons and phase out the use of polystyrene foam food containers in a recently-… Read Story
A Virginia board has narrowly approved a key permit for the Wegmans grocery chain to build a regional distribution center in Hanover County wh… Read Story
Nature has a way, it seems, of getting people to shed their cares for a spell and relate both to it and each other. Read Story
During nearly 40 years as a federal wildlife biologist at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Sam Droege has tromped across nearly every one of its … Read Story
East of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, more than 2,000 chicken houses form one of the densest congregations of their kind in the country. The… Read Story
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 have recommended building a new Chesapeake Bay bridge at the site of the existing two spans that cross betwe… 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