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The Environmental Protection Agency has “no confidence” that a plan to mitigate sediment pollution overflowing from behind the Conowingo Dam will be completed due to inadequate funding.

The Environmental Protection Agency has “no confidence” that a plan to mitigate sediment pollution overflowing from behind the Conowingo Dam will be completed due to inadequate funding.

The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint was established a dozen years ago when the six states in the Chesapeake Bay’s watershed, as well as the District of Columbia, agreed to a host of pollution reduction measures supposed to be implemented by 2025.

This year, the Chesapeake Bay Program partners found the size of the bay’s dead zone to be “average” — one year after its size was the second-smallest recorded since 1985.

In August and September, calm winds and persistently warm temperatures allowed the Chesapeake Bay's dead zone to grow larger and linger longer than average.

  Troubled by farmers’ and landowners’ lack of enthusiasm for enrolling land in the Conservation Reserve Program, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA will open enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with higher payment rates, new incentives, and a more targeted focus on the program’s role in climate change mitigation. Vilsack announced the changes at a meeting of the National Climate Task Force, and the White House in turn highlighted the announcemen...

Virginia is losing 16,000 acres of trees every year to development and disease, according to the Virginia Department of Forestry. Legislation will come before the 2021 General Assembly session that

ENFIELD, NY -- Enfield Councilperson Michael Miles resigned from the board over the weekend, citing the “toxic nature of our town governance.” Miles was appointed to the board just two months ago.  Miles said he had joined the board hoping to bring it level headedness, but found he was unable.  “Instead, most of my time has been spent reading and watching the vitriol among town officials that prevents it from accomplishing basic, non-controversial tasks,” he wrote. â�...

CBFs 2020 State of the Bay Score Down Slightly After Four Years of Assault on Environmental Regulations, There Is Hope This year, the Chesapeake Bay Foundations (CBF) assessment of the State of the Bay remained at a D+, but declined by one point from 2018. While concerning, the decline is largely due to ineffective management of the Bays striped bass population, as opposed to water quality concerns. Of the 13 indicators CBF assesses, four showed declines. Despite several years of assaults to e...

Chesapeake Bay’s health remains poor, report says Photo/Deltaville Community Association Deltaville, an unincorporated village on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula and the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay system is still dangerously out of balance, but there’s hope for improvement as pollution levels decline and the dead zone retreats — Chesapeake Bay Foundation President Will Baker By Sarah Vogelsong Two years after its last assessment of the Chesapeake Bay’s health, the...