Federal Spending Package Includes Increase In Funding For Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
More help is coming to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
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More help is coming to clean up the Chesapeake Bay.
Governors in nine states along the Atlantic coast are urging the Trump Administration to stop a company that makes fish-oil supplements and other products from fishing in Virginia waters.
This investment builds on the $1.24 million which the Senators announced in June.
"What's happening here on Fox Island is the story of what's really happening in all of the marshes in the Chesapeake Bay," Mullin said.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Fox Island Education Center has closed as rising sea levels cover more and more of the island upon which it sits.
The helicopter took the patient to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
Maryland Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen announced award money will help researchers study the Chesapeake Bay.
The education center, which has been in operation since 1978, is about to be shut down. With sea-level rise, and erosion forcing the Foundation's hand.
An environmental group says sea-level rise and erosion are bringing an end to the use of an education center on an island in the Chesapeake Bay.
Nearly $13 million in federal money will be used to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland.
Volunteers will work with the Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership, Healthy Harbor Initiative, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to install what will be the largest oyster garden in Baltimore.
The State of Maryland is spending nearly a million dollars to recontour a mile of stream bed to better for the stream itself, fish and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland motorists are being told to expect major delays on the Bay Bridge beginning next week as a deck rehabilitation project gets underway.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved legislation for the Chesapeake Bay's oyster restoration funding.
A Maryland agency is proposing a 30% reduction in the amount of oysters that can be harvested in the next season.
Gov. Larry Hogan was re-elected Chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council on Thursday.
The Maryland Board of Public Works approved more than $1.4 million in grants Wednesday to reduce pollution and save energy.
Gov. Larry Hogan says Maryland has "alarming concerns" about neighboring Pennsylvania's efforts to meet clean water goals and how falling short will affect the Chesapeake Bay.
The Maryland Transportation Authority Tuesday released a list of three potential corridors in which a Chesapeake Bay crossing could be built in an effort to reduce traffic stress on the existing U.S. Highway 50 Bay Bridge.
$800,000 will be granted to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources towards Oyster Habitat Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.
James and Barren islands off the coast of Dorchester County will be restored with the help of a joint effort with the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District.
The warm weather this summer, along with a lot of rain, is bad news for the Chesapeake Bay.
Visit Maryland said there are currently 26 lighthouses visitors can see throughout the state.
They planted 3.4 million spat, or baby oysters, were planted on Wednesday alone- they originally had planned to seed around one million at the Campbell Reef.
Maryland environmental officials say underwater grasses in the nation's largest estuary were mostly resilient to last year's record rain and increased runoff pollutants.
