Early one April afternoon under a bright blue spring sky, Josh Cohn and Connor Lynch were bouncing a fishing jig off the bottom of the Potomac…
Karl Blankenship
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Karl Blankenship is editor-at-large of the Bay Journal. You can reach him at kblankenship@bayjournal.com.
Dana Aunkst, who has served as director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Office since December 2018, announced tha…
Local governments throughout the Chesapeake Bay region stand ready to help restore the region’s water quality, an advisory committee told Bay …
It’s been a decade since the Chesapeake Bay watershed was put on a “pollution diet.”
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…
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…
More pollution has been sweeping past the Conowingo Dam since its reservoir filled with sediment a decade ago, allowing millions of pounds of …
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…
Federal attorneys are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from environmentalists and several Chesapeake Bay watershed states that aims to force the U…
Blue catfish, the invasive fish with a big appetite that is overwhelming many Chesapeake Bay tributaries, is probably here to stay.