Will switchgrass, a tall, resilient and fast-growing native plant once familiar to pioneers, become the next cash crop for farmers in states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage? In a convergence…
Shore Regional Health recently won approval from Maryland Department of the Environment to install pipes that would allow unfiltered groundwater from a major heating oil spill at the hospital to…
Building on a decades-long legacy, ShoreRivers has grown its grassroots foundation in local communities, reduced pollution in Eastern Shore waterways, and elevated the organization’s voice at state and regional levels…
The record for the world’s largest oyster restoration project is poised to be broken with a new $30 million project on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, but some environmentalists would like it…
A new round of testing for “forever chemicals” in St. Mary’s County, MD, found “no levels of concern” in oysters or in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay tributaries where the shellfish…
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a sweeping conservation measure that provides continued support for several key Chesapeake Bay initiatives and creates a new program to support fish and…
The forest teems with wildlife behind Michael and Lisa Lyston’s home in Abingdon, MD. Over the years, they’ve been visited by foxes, opossums, deer, raccoons, owls and woodpeckers — not…
UMMS Shore Regional Health has brought in a new consultant to work with Maryland Department of the Environment to handle the massive heating oil spill that occurred in the late…
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 attract a natural gas pipeline, which…
Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit in federal district court Thursday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accusing the agency of violating the Clean Water Act by failing to enforce…
