chesapeake bay foundation

• Obituaries

Richard 'Jud' Henderson, Gibson Island author and longtime sailor, dies

Richard "Jud" Henderson, an author who turned his love of sailing and the Chesapeake Bay into a series of books on maritime topics, died Feb. 18 of a ruptured appendix at the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He was 91.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 15, 2016

• Opinion

Md. leaders protect funds for bay cleanup

Federal funds target bay cleanup

• Howard County

Dunloggin efforts to improve health of Chesapeake Bay gain national recognition

The efforts of Dunloggin Middle School students to help improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay has received national recognition.

• Opinion

Stormwater fee is a boon for Prince George's

Some people want us to think a stormwater fee is a lemon. They sourly call it a "rain tax." Prince George's County thinks otherwise. It is making lemonade to prove it.

• Colleges and Universities

Maryland nonprofits investing in offshore accounts

Maryland charities Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland and U.S. Naval Academy all report offshore investment accounts

By Doug Donovan

Dec 13, 2014

• Maryland

Bay health essential [Editorial]

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail 12/03/14

• Environment

O'Malley administration sets out path to fracking in Md.

Capping more than three years of study, the O'Malley administration declared Tuesday that hydraulic fracturing for natural gas can be done safely in Western Maryland, but only after regulations are tightened to reduce air and water pollution and protect residents from well contamination, noise and other disruption associated with an anticipated drilling boom.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Nov 25, 2014

• Opinion

Phosphorus rules, finally

Better late than never, Maryland takes needed steps to curb phosphorus pollution from poultry manure and protect the Chesapeake Bay

• News

Dredging Conowingo little help to bay, study finds

Dredging millions of tons of sediment from the Susquehanna River upriver of Conowingo dam would potentially cost billions of dollars and do relatively little to help the Chesapeake Bay compared with current pollution cleanup efforts, a new federal-state study says.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Nov 12, 2014

• Politics

Groups competing for Hogan's attention

With Maryland's long campaign for governor now over, the unexpected election of Republican businessman Larry Hogan has given rise to an intense new campaign now just beginning: The jockeying among advocates and interest groups for attention, jobs and influence in a rare GOP administration.

• Environment

Manure curbs could cost Shore farmers, study says

An O'Malley administration plan to restrict the use of chicken manure as crop fertilizer could cost Eastern Shore farmers from $22 million to nearly $53 million over the next six years, depending on how quickly they have to comply, a new study says.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Nov 7, 2014

• Opinion

Improve Baltimore's transit to improve its future

Can Baltimore continue to do what it takes to become a thriving metropolis like Boston and San Francisco, or are we destined to be stuck in the Detroit-Cleveland post industrial doldrums?

• Environment

Striped bass catch curbs ordered

Moving to counter worrisome declines in one of the East Coast's most prized fish, an interstate commission has ordered a 25 percent cutback in the catch of striped bass along the Atlantic coast next year and a somewhat more gradual reduction by anglers and commerical fishermen in the Chesapeake Bay.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Oct 30, 2014

• Opinion

A farmer's perspective on phosphorous management

Eastern Shore farmers don't oppose phosphorous management — if it's science based.

• Howard County

Ellicott City students join Gov. O'Malley on stream restoration project

Hollifield Station Elementary School students joined Gov. Martin O'Malley Tuesday along the Upper Little Patuxent River in Ellicott City to plant trees, roll out burlap matting and announce $600 million in bay restoration funds over the next six years.

• Anne Arundel

For Annapolis native, rowing trip takes 35 years, and offers unique perspective on Chesapeake

• Anne Arundel

Datebook

Anne Arundel County datebook

• Baltimore County

Input sought on Loch Raven Reservoir North watershed goals

An input meeting to discuss the Loch Raven North Small Watershed Action Plan takes place Sept. 29 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

• Maryland

Wetlands to preserve wildlife and protect waterways from nutrient pollution

Gail Wagner, of Pleasant Valley, said her two sons wanted to participate in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Create a Wetland Project for two very different reasons.

• Maryland

Hard choices for the Chesapeake

• Baltimore County

Sparrows Point owner, government reach cleanup agreement

State and federal environmental officials have reached cleanup agreements with the owners of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.

• Politics

Rain inspires new Hogan attack on Brown

Rain inspires new Hogan attack

• Health

As officials warn of flesh-eating bacteria, local advocates monitor water tests

Five cases of flesh-eating bacteria infections have been found this year in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

• Opinion

Clean water is good for Maryland business [Commentary]

• Carroll County Times

Westminster teen travels to Washington for government 'training'

National program of American Legion

• Environment

Maryland's storm-water pollution efforts faulted

Environmental groups have gone to court in an attempt to force state regulators to strengthen orders given to Baltimore city and three of Maryland's largest counties to curtail their storm-water pollution. Meanwhile, in a recently disclosed assessment, the Environmental Protection Agency also found shortcomings in Maryland's storm-water control efforts, both in new development projects and in established communities.

• Environment

EPA finds progress, shortfalls in Bay cleanup effort

While Maryland and most other Chesapeake Bay states are making decent progress in reducing pollution fouling the estuary, Pennsylvania is "substantially off track" and will receive additional federal help and backup action if necessary, the Environmental Protection Agency reported.

• Maryland

Editorial: States commit to cleanup

• Environment

New bay restoration pact signed

Government officials involved in the multistate Chesapeake Bay cleanup pledged Monday to broaden and accelerate the long-running effort, including a vow to address the impacts of climate change on the ailing estuary.

• Sun Investigates

Phosphorus reduction in bay losing steam in places

Despite early progress reducing Chesapeake Bay pollution, levels of a key pollutant, phosphorus, have not come down in many rivers in the past decade — and are actually worsening in several, officials say.

• Industrial Disasters

Baltimore's position in crude oil market grows as U.S. confronts concerns

As the nation enjoys a boom in crude oil production and grapples with the heightened risks and logistical constraints of moving ever-increasing volumes of the volatile commodity through its cities and towns, two companies in Baltimore appear to be carving out a new local foothold for the industry.

• Baltimore City Paper

In This Week's City Paper

• Maryland

Candidates discuss environmental mandates

• Environment

Federal help for Chesapeake Bay cleanup announced

The Obama administration announced Tuesday that farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region can vie for a share of $400 million available nationwide for reducing erosion and polluted runoff from fields and feedlots.

• Maryland

100-plus volunteers turn out to work on Union Bridge planting project on farm

• Environment

Commission to consider gradual rockfish catch limits

Amid warnings that slashing the striped bass catch by a third next year could devastate Chesapeake Bay commercial fishermen, Atlantic states regulators agreed Tuesday to consider gradually reducing the catch over three years instead.

• News

New rockfish catch limits eyed

Worried by recent declines in Maryland's state fish, Atlantic states fisheries regulators are weighing slashing the annual striped bass catch by up to one-third next year all along the East Coast and in the Chesapeake Bay.

• Environment

Bay crab population decreases

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population remains at a low level for the second straight year, officials announced Thursday, blaming the severe winter for killing off a large number of the iconic crustaceans.

• News

Md. investigates fish kill in harbor

State officials are investigating a wide-ranging fish kill spotted Monday stretching from Fells Point in Baltimore harbor out into the Chesapeake Bay. Authorities have yet to pinpoint a cause.

• Environment

Baltimore, other big cities back EPA in Bay cleanup dispute

Baltimore has joined with other major US cities in defending the federal government's authority to impose a "pollution diet" on the Chesapeake Bay.

• Maryland

Volunteer help sought for planting trees

• Maryland

Legislature withstands stormwater storm, few other environmental efforts pass

• Opinion

U.S. gas exports: disenfranchising Maryland to spite Russia? [Commentary]

Right now, as the drama unfolds in Crimea, millions of Marylanders are facing the possible imposition of new and disruptive gas pipelines and compressor stations across much of their state. The gas would come from controversial "hydraulic fracturing" — or fracking — wells spread across the Appalachian region. It would be piped through Maryland to a massive $3.8 billion "liquefaction" plant for natural gas at a place called Cove Point right on the Chesapeake Bay.

• Baltimore City

Baltimore Lab School strikes out on its own

Longer look at Sun brief on Baltimore Lab School in Charles Village buying its building and severing ties with Washington Lab School.

• Maryland

After successfully defending stormwater mandate, environmentalists eye future changes

• Opinion

Last chance to save the bay [Letter]

Last chance to save the bay

• Harford

Perfect picture from Harford is out there [Editorial]

No doubt a winning photo — or at least a runner up — is out there in the wilds of Harford waiting to be taken.

• Politics

Senators seek to stall pollution regulations

Key senators have put language in the state budget bill that would stall Maryland's efforts to limit one of the Chesapeake Bay's main pollutants, phosphorus.

• Maryland

Carroll's 'rain tax' compromise would cover small portion of stormwater management costs