The Maryland Department of the Environment plans to appeal a state judge’s ruling that the agency must account for ammonia discharges to the air before issuing water permits to high-density…
week after introducing a slew of amendments to a wide-ranging climate bill, two committees in the House of Delegates voted Thursday to advance the measure onto the House floor, four…
Celebrate our planet on Saturday, April 24th at the 11th annual Chestertown Earth Day Festival, 9am to 1pm in Fountain Park. This family friendly event features a Community Trash Walk,…
Federal regulators have approved the relicensing of the Conowingo Dam, blessing a controversial deal that Maryland reached with the dam’s owner over its responsibility to help clean up pollution of…
The Maryland Senate voted Friday to ramp up Maryland’s efforts to fight climate change over the next decade, passing a sweeping bill that calls for a massive tree planting campaign…
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 state has enacted some of…
John Naylor eased his 16-foot fiberglass canoe into the Susquehanna River near a small archipelago of forested and ever-changing mudflat islands known as the Conejohela Flats, once the domain of…
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 cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. Michael…
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 50 bypasses the little town on…
Democrats and Republicans may not agree on much these days, but in the Maryland General Assembly lawmakers of both parties have come together to protect sea turtles, shorebirds and other…
More pollution has been sweeping past the Conowingo Dam since its reservoir filled with sediment a decade ago, allowing millions of pounds of nutrient pollution to wash downstream to the…
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state lawmakers in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania when they gather in…
The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reported Monday, with upticks in water quality offset by a worrisome decline in…
The operator of the largest coal-fired power plant in Maryland has agreed to stop burning coal in support of legislation that would transition the state away from coal in order…
What isn’t known about the 400-year history of African Americans and the Chesapeake region could fill the Bay itself to overflowing. “This is part of the American story,” said Jonathan…
Just five decades ago, Elliott Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was a global hotspot for avid birders who wanted to add the diminutive Eastern black rail to their life lists….
Federal attorneys are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from environmentalists and several Chesapeake Bay watershed states that aims to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take more aggressive action…
After the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for Joe Biden on Saturday, environmental advocates in Maryland and across the country exhaled a sigh of relief. In just four years, President Trump rolled…
The cost to reduce the added nutrient pollution spilling over the Conowingo Dam now has a price tag: at least $53 million a year. That’s the rough estimate contained in…
In 1612, Capt. John Smith became the first European to produce a detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay region. He used the same mode of transportation that cartographers had used…
