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Alabama's oil-threatened coast, the environmentally hobbled Chesapeake Bay and Georgia's cypress forests are among the top 10 threatened places in the Southeast, according to a list compiled by the Southern Environmental Law Center.
It could soon cost you more money to carry your groceries home in plastic bags.
Two farmers' organizations sued the federal government Monday over a Chesapeake Bay clean-up plan, challenging the legality of its pollution standards and asking a judge to keep them from being enforced or applied.
Somerset County watermen are asking Delegate-elect Charles Otto to ease crabbing restrictions.
A sweeping plan to control water pollution in the Chesapeake Bay must be challenged because it will ruin regional agriculture and become the model for similar restrictions nationally, the head of the nation's largest farm lobbying group said Sunday.
Officials say they're investigating a large fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay but suspect cold weather killed them instead of problems with the water quality.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the details of a plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay, calling it one of the world's largest water pollution control projects.
The tide is turning in a positive direction when it comes to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Chesapeake Bay is showing encouraging signs of improvement but remains afflicted with dead zones, fish kills and pollution, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said Tuesday in its "State of the Bay Report."
Maryland Natural Resources Police say they broke through ice and faced rough seas to rescue two duck hunters that became stuck on an island in the Chesapeake Bay during severe weather.
Tough love for the bay. After years of sitting back, the federal EPA is forcing states in the Chesapeake watershed to clean up what flows into the bay.
Chuck Fox, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's senior Chesapeake Bay adviser, is leaving the position to join a new ocean conservation effort.
Maryland's new plan for speeding up cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay would cost $10 billion or more for pollution reduction measures.
A Washington environmental group says Virginia's final Chesapeake Bay restoration plan is a significant improvement, but lacks funding commitments.
Chesapeake Bay advocates are studying Virginia's 130-page plan to clean up the estuary.
Cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay watershed would create thousands of jobs and spur millions of dollars in ecomomic activity in Virginia, Maryland and surrounding states, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said in a report Monday.
