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As Marylanders have fought to restore the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and bolster its defenses against climate change and pollution, we need to enlist a valuable, yet underappreciated ally: trees.

The Chesapeake Bay phosphorus has reached 64% of the 2025 goal of the sediment amount

The pollutants that do most damage to Chesapeake Bay wildlife and water quality declined last year, the Chesapeake Bay Program reported.

Bay state senators are seeking a massive increase in funding forChesapeake Bay restoration efforts.

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of Dr. Kandis Boyd as the new Director of EPAs Chesapeake Bay Program. Dr. Boyd will start her new

Kandis Boyd as the new Director of EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program.  Dr. Boyd will start her new role as Director on June 6.

Kandis Boyd becomes the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program on Monday.

The time has come for DNR to restrict commercial harvest by adopting strict daily bushel limits for males and greatly decreasing the bushel limits for females, reducing the number of crab pots used, shortening the crabbing season, closing crabbing two days each week, and adopting a quota system for each commercial crabber as with rockfish.

The new policy will go into effect immediately

Pennsylvania’s failure to live up to its Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations means farmers, wastewater plant operators and industries are more likely to get knock on their door from the U.S.