A widely used pesticide found to pose health risks for children and wildlife is due to be phased out in Maryland next year, but the state’s la… Read Story
The purse net fishing season for Atlantic menhaden kicked off May 4 in Virginia, but with a much-reduced limit on how many of the commercially… Read Story
Several Chesapeake Bay states and watershed environmental groups have gone to court challenging the Trump administration’s weakening of federa… Read Story
Fresh off successful efforts to bolster Chesapeake Bay-related funding for this year, advocates are hoping to secure even greater federal supp… Read Story
The coronavirus pandemic that’s keeping many people inside across the Chesapeake Bay watershed is also limiting some outdoor recreational oppo… Read Story
As the new coronavirus spreads across the country, environmental regulatory enforcement is contracting. Read Story
Responding to employers’ calls, including those of crab meat processing companies in Virginia and Maryland, the federal government announced M… Read Story
In a legislative session cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, Maryland lawmakers approved a ban on an agricultural pesticide and passed a ha… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay and other environmental issues had more floor time — and legislative changes — than they have in years during Virginia’s 60… Read Story
When black skimmers, royal terns and other migrating seabirds return to South Island this spring, they will be greeted by a fresh layer of pavement. Read Story
Maryland and Virginia seafood industry leaders say they won’t have enough workers to process crabs this season unless the federal government o… Read Story
The Trump administration’s plans to remove federal oversight from some streams and wetlands will leave those waterways without protection in s… Read Story
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 Story
Oyster reef construction in Maryland’s Tred Avon River, held up since 2018 by a federal funding drought, could resume by year’s end. The U.S. … Read Story
The Conowingo Dam controversy isn’t settled just yet. Read Story
Undeterred by previous rebuffs by Congress, the Trump administration has once again proposed slashing funding for the Chesapeake Bay restoration. Read Story
Anglers in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries will be limited to landing just one striped bass a day under new rules approved this week by… Read Story
Overriding a veto by Gov. Larry Hogan, Maryland lawmakers enacted legislation Thursday requiring a more consensus-based approach to managing t… Read Story
Ray Ellis makes a living hauling chicken poop — tons of it, often across state lines. Read Story
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials on Friday asserted their intent to achieve Chesapeake Bay cleanup goals by 2025, but they stopp… Read Story
This is the third article in a 3-part series, A sea change in action: Bay states plan for future climate, providing an overview of state-level… Read Story
This is the second in a 3-part series, A sea change in action: Bay states plan for future climate, providing an overview of state-level climat… Read Story
Anglers who live for hooking a feisty striped bass are going to have fewer chances to do it in 2020 — and probably for at least a year or two … Read Story
This is the first in a 3-part series, A sea change in action: Bay states plan for future climate, providing an overview of state-level climate… Read Story
This is the way the 4,000 residents in the small borough of Greencastle, PA, figure it: They occupy a mere 1.6 square miles. They have a state… Read Story
Is the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load and its cleanup deadline enforceable? The answer is complicated. Read Story
The year 2010 closed with the unveiling of a new Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan lauded by states, federal officials and environmentalists as the … Read Story
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday called for his state to initiate legal actions against Pennsylvania, citing the “obvious inadequacy” of… Read Story
Maryland and Virginia lawmakers are gearing up for renewed debate in the coming weeks over renewable energy and how their states should deal w… Read Story
Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joseph Bartenfelder declared Monday that he saw no need to delay a state regulation that restricts the use of a… Read Story
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that plans produced by Pennsylvania and New York fall far short of meeting Chesa… Read Story
Virginia faces a threatened shutdown of its large commercial fishery for Atlantic menhaden after federal officials found the state had allowed… Read Story
Federal funding for Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts is in line for a boost in the big spending package passed this week by Congress. Read Story
Another Maryland county has tightened its local forest conservation requirements, going beyond state law in an attempt to slow the loss of woodlands. Read Story
Four of 6 states in the Chesapeake Bay region cut funding or staff to their main pollution control agency over the last 10 years, says a repor… Read Story
In 2017, Pennsylvania’s environmental laws were turned upside down when the state Supreme Court ruled that the state, and possibly municipalit… Read Story
Pennsylvania, which is badly lagging in meeting its Chesapeake Bay cleanup goals, may become the first state to rely heavily on the private se… Read Story
Forest conservation efforts are slowly gaining traction in Maryland, one county at a time. Read Story
The Hogan administration is weighing a one-year delay in restrictions on fertilizing farm fields with animal manure after a Salisbury Universi… Read Story
When Maryland vastly expanded the number of farms with large numbers of animals that would require stormwater permits, it offered a grace peri… Read Story
Ralph Northam campaigned for Virginia’s highest office on his Chesapeake Bay roots, and he seemed to be making good on those promises when he … Read Story
Acting to stem serious declines in the striped bass population, East Coast fishery managers have ordered an 18% harvest reduction for the comi… Read Story
The owner of Conowingo Dam has struck a deal with Maryland to resolve a dispute over the hydropower facility’s role in polluting the Chesapeak… Read Story
Note: This article was updated on Nov. 1, 2019, to include more information about the commission's vote and its possible consequences. Read Story
After a contentious public hearing over a forest conservation bill in one of Maryland’s most populous counties, local lawmakers have scaled ba… Read Story
Battle lines have been drawn in one of Maryland’s most populous counties over preserving more of its forest land from development, in a debate… Read Story
The rains have finally let up, but they’ve dealt a serious blow to the Chesapeake Bay’s oysters — and to the people who make a living harvesti… Read Story
Must Chesapeake Bay states achieve the impossible to reach Bay cleanup goals by 2025? That’s unclear. But their work must certainly achieve th… Read Story
Perhaps it was fitting that on a morning when he felt an illness coming on, and a marching band was creating an unrelenting din outside the wi… Read Story
Acting to curtail overfishing, Maryland natural resources officials proposed new oyster harvest restrictions Monday night that they said could… Read Story