Group Lists Chesapeake Bay As A 'Most Endangered Place'
The Southern Environmental Law Center has released its fourth annual "Top 10 Endangered Places" in the Southeast and the list includes some familiar landscapes.
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The Southern Environmental Law Center has released its fourth annual "Top 10 Endangered Places" in the Southeast and the list includes some familiar landscapes.
A Greek shipping company pleads guilty to polluting at sea and then trying to cover it up. It came in a plea agreement in federal court in Baltimore.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation say the governor's legislative agenda is good for the economy and the environment, but falls short on funding.
Maryland Natural Resources Police say five watermen have been charged with power-dredging for oysters in a Tangier Sound sanctuary.
Out of the Chesapeake's many problems, add sexual imbalance. It's become a real possibility among the bay's blue crabs.
Male crabs have their pick of mates in the Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Bay scientists will be gathering in Edgewater next week to discuss their latest research and how it can help bay management.
A Maryland board approved a wetlands license on Wednesday for work that would be needed to prepare for a potential third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Lusby by the Chesapeake Bay.
Fighting off claims that environmental regulations are job killers, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says it has facts that prove just the opposite.
A report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation concludes that storm water and sewage plant upgrades intended to help nurse the environmentally-battered bay back to health would create nearly 250,000 jobs.
Five Maryland toll bridges are getting an $11 million security upgrade.
Chesapeake Bay restoration advocates say Gov. Bob McDonnell's biennial budget proposal falls short of what's needed to fund the state's portion of the bay's cleanup.
A fight to protect the water. Environmentalists say chicken manure is ruining the Chesapeake Bay.
Scientists say the huge sediment plume that formed in the Chesapeake Bay after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee did not cause the widespread damage they had feared.
The first official day of winter looks to be a mild one across the Northeast thanks to a large ridge just to the south of Bermuda.
The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 25-year-old man who's been missing since the sailboat he was aboard capsized in the Chesapeake Bay on Saturday.
The Coast Guard and state and local crews continued searching the Chesapeake Bay late Saturday evening for a missing boater after earlier recovering two other people from the water.
The pounding rains from Tropical Storm Lee caused plenty of problems last summer.
The Chesapeake Bay Program says underwater grasses in the Susquehanna Flats survived this fall's heavy rains better than researchers expected.
A cannon from the Chesapeake Bay's oyster wars of the 1800s is on display at a museum in Annapolis.
Maryland's Board of Public Works has approved $17 million in construction grants for the Blue Plains sewage plant, the largest single source of nitrogen pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay.
A million dollars might just buy some answers in the Chesapeake.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says infrared videos show air pollution coming from natural gas sites springing up across the country.
To comply with the new Chesapeake Bay "pollution diet," Anne Arundel County will spend millions of dollars upgrading sewage plants, connecting septic systems to public sewers and fixing outdated stormwater controls, county public works officials said.
The Chesapeake Bay and shopping bags are on the legislative agenda for the Maryland League of Conservation Voters.
