Cover photo: Members of the Cedar Ridge Community Church in Montgomery County, MD, walk through the meadow adjacent to the community solar pro… Read StoryCommunity solar projects slowly expand in the Chesapeake region
A Pennsylvania judge has upheld a municipality’s 2021 rejection of a conditional-use permit, the second major setback for what would be the st… Read StoryJudge deals new setback to large solar proposal near Gettysburg
In 2020, an employee for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection smelled crude oil while driving to work in the northwestern p… Read StoryMore concerns emerge for Pennsylvania's abandoned oil, gas wells
Cover photo: This solar facility, built by Utah-based Sustainable Power Group, or sPower in Spotsylvania County, VA, covers more than 6,000 ac… Read StoryProtecting the water while harvesting sunshine
Clean water and clean energy sound like they should work in tandem. But at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant — the largest s… Read StoryDC water treatment plant powers up for cleaner energy
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 StorySheep and solar panels: Using solar sites for pastureland
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 StoryVirginia debates impacts of solar panels on stormwater runoff
After two years of frustration, Maryland environmental advocates have much to celebrate after the conclusion earlier this week of what one cal… Read StoryMaryland lawmakers pass sweeping climate legislation, wave of environmental bills
The rollout of solar and other renewable energy projects that Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are counting on to end fossil-fuel reliance … Read StoryMore than 800 solar projects in Bay states stuck waiting for review
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 StoryDominion plans coal ash landfill near Potomac River
A power company has suspended plans to build a natural gas pipeline across five counties in central Virginia, signaling another win for enviro… Read StoryCompany halts plans for natural gas pipeline in Virginia
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 StoryDelaware climate plan trails neighboring states’ pledges
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 StoryAhead on state agendas: Climate, environmental justice, Chesapeake cleanup funds
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 StoryFERC: Virginia pipeline’s environmental contractor has ‘conflict of interest’
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 StoryVirginia board denies air pollution permit for compressor station
After years of spills, sinkholes and contaminated drinking water, Pennsylvania’s attorney general has filed 48 criminal charges against the ow… Read StoryPA brings criminal charges against gas pipeline
A company planning to bring one of two natural gas-fired power plants to Charles City County, VA, said this summer it is abandoning the projec… Read StoryVirginia county fends off natural gas plant, but battles continue
Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of ca… Read StoryAs federal support emerges, PA wants to be a carbon capture hub
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with supporters of the state’s environmental rights amendment who invoked the landmark measure to pre… Read StoryPennsylvania high court ruling shores up state’s ‘green amendment’
The long-running Conowingo Dam controversy is back in court. On June 17, four environmental groups filed a legal challenge to the Federal Ener… Read StoryEnvironmental groups file suit challenging Conowingo Dam license
Township supervisors near Gettysburg, PA, on June 3 pulled the plug on what could have been Pennsylvania’s largest solar energy project. Read StoryTownship rejects Pennsylvania's largest solar project
A Maryland power plant has been releasing stormwater for years into a small Patuxent River town founded in the late 1920s as a vacation resort… Read StoryHistoric Black town in Maryland seeks justice for stormwater discharge
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 StoryDespite pushback, Delaware chicken waste facility advances
Pennsylvania officials today announced what they say is the largest purchase of solar energy ever by a state, committing to buy enough electri… Read StoryPA orders seven farmland solar sites, government to be 50% renewable by 2023
Federal regulators have approved the relicensing of the Conowingo Dam, blessing a controversial deal that Maryland reached with the dam’s owne… Read StoryConowingo Dam license reissued after long fight over ecological impacts
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 StoryOrange water, dirty air: What will it take to clean up abandoned mine land in the Chesapeake watershed?
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 StoryAs chicken waste piles up on Delmarva, a ‘solution’ stirs controversy
Growing threats to the environment — from warming temperatures to melting icecaps, rising seas to more intense storms and floods — have increa… Read StoryVirginia students take on solar energy challenge
Despite setbacks and cancellations to some high-profile natural gas pipelines, a project on the Delmarva Peninsula has overcome strong resista… Read StoryMaryland approves gas pipeline, saying switch to total renewable energy will be incremental
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state … Read StoryStates mull conservation action under shadow of COVID-19
A contentious $346 million project to expand natural gas pipelines and infrastructure in Virginia took another hit last week when the State Co… Read StoryVirginia board rejects application for natural gas pipeline expansion project
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 StoryNaval power plant proposal tests Virginia on environmental justice
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 StoryEastern Shore pipeline gets key win in first round of votes
Unlike most people, Sam Buggs actually looks forward to getting his electricity bill. Read StoryDC spreads solar energy benefits through 'Solar for All'
Despite Maryland’s ambitious commitment to renewable energy, solar power continues to generate friction across the state. Large utility-scale … Read StorySolar siting in Maryland generates friction, threatening climate goals
The Trump administration’s latest move to ease regulatory requirements on the nation’s coal-burning power plants is expected to have limited i… Read StoryWill loopholes in toxic discharge rule hurt regional waters?
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 StoryNatural gas pipeline was a long shot in Eastern Shore county — until state help arrived
In a blistering report on Pennsylvania’s 12-year experience with hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a special statewide grand jury said pub… Read StoryNatural gas fracking under fire in PA
In Virginia, the future of natural gas depends on a highly volatile present. Read StoryIn Virginia battleground, natural gas pipeline projects face reversals
The big energy companies behind the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced July 5 they are dropping the controversial project, blaming leg… Read StoryAtlantic Coast Pipeline scrapped amid economic, legal setbacks
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 StorySupreme Court rules pipeline can cross under Appalachian Trail
Virginians calling in to the State Corporation Commission on May 12 pulled few punches: “environmental racism,” “sacrifice zone,” an “unfair a… Read StoryPipeline projects draw criticism for ‘environmental racism’
By this time in a typical year, the main fish lift at Conowingo Dam would be busy hoisting thousands of fish daily over the 94-foot high barri… Read StoryShad hatcheries, fish lifts fall victim to coronavirus
In a legislative session cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, Maryland lawmakers approved a ban on an agricultural pesticide and passed a ha… Read StoryA legislative session shortened by coronavirus in Maryland slows environmental actions
The Chesapeake Bay and other environmental issues had more floor time — and legislative changes — than they have in years during Virginia’s 60… Read StoryVirginia legislature wraps up session packed with environmental issues
Will a historic footpath running through Appalachia be the final barrier to an $8 billion pipeline project? The decision is now in the hands o… Read StoryPipeline backers, opponents get their day in the Supreme Court
The Conowingo Dam controversy isn’t settled just yet. Read StoryEnvironmentalists, Shore officials oppose Conowingo settlement
A Maryland company announced plans Thursday to build what could be the first large-scale facility on the Delmarva Peninsula for converting pou… Read StoryMD company to build facility to recycle poultry litter, waste on Eastern Shore
The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it plans to revisit a lower court’s ruling that, among others, forced Virginia’s largest electric util… Read StorySupreme Court will hear Atlantic Coast Pipeline case