What do companies focused on technology related to oceans and waterways need to thrive in Maryland? That was the key question on the minds of over 100 entrepreneurs, innovators, academics and investors who came together Tuesday to discuss how Maryland can become the mid-Atlantic’s ...

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Shipping and logistics company the CMA CGM Group is partnering with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to join the Chesapeake Oyster Alliance.

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Two Maryland counties on either side of the Chesapeake Bay are calling for a new, bigger bridge between them.

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The groundwater of at least nine military installations near the Chesapeake Bay is contaminated with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals,” a report found.

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The health of the Chesapeake Bay improved to a grade of C in 2020 — up from a C-minus in 2019, according to an annual report card by scientists.

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Montgomery County unlawfully denied stormwater management tax credits to property owners in a Gaithersburg business park because the development’s ponds for handling runoff were not located on their individual properties, the Maryland Tax Court’s chief judge ruled Wednesday. Walter C. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A new report says that underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay have declined by nearly 40 percent. The Chesapeake Bay Program released a report last week that said a factor in the decline could be attributed to more ...

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A family member said thousands of people attended a virtual memorial service over the weekend for Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her son, Gideon, extended members of the powerful Kennedy family who died after their canoe overturned in the Chesapeake Bay.

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States may impose upon their counties stormwater pollution-prevention standards more stringent than those called for under the federal Clean Water Act, the Maryland Department of the Environment stated Thursday in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to turn aside Carroll County’s ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan has directed Attorney General Brian Frosh to pursue litigation against Pennsylvania and the Environmental Protection Agency over Pennsylvania’s plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Hogan believes the EPA will not force Pennsylvania to meet its ...

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