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Report: Chesapeake Bay underwater grasses declined last year

July 15, 2020 Comments Off on Report: Chesapeake Bay underwater grasses declined last year

Charmaine Dahlenburg, Chesapeake Bay Programs Manager, Conservation at the National Aquarium in Baltimore examines a molted blue crab shell that she found in their new experimental wetland. This high tech floating wetland features new inovations like water filled pontoon to help adjust the wetlands weight, a shallow center chanel for marine life to hide and raise young in, and airation lines to help circulate water and bring new food particles to the oysters bedded amongst the native species planted in the pourous base. The aquarium hopes the eperiments will help them better understand how floating wetlands can help impove thier use in urban waters. (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz)

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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Online service held for Kennedy family members who drowned

April 13, 2020 Comments Off on Online service held for Kennedy family members who drowned

FILE - This undated file image posted on Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean's Facebook account shows her with her family, including her son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, bottom right. Maryland authorities said Monday, April 6, 2020, they have recovered the body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean after she and her son went missing after a canoeing accident. Authorities say they will resume searching Tuesday for her son, 8-year-old Gideon McKean. (Facebook via AP, File)

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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Maryland urges justices to reject Carroll Co.’s stormwater appeal

January 24, 2020 Comments Off on Maryland urges justices to reject Carroll Co.’s stormwater appeal

In this June 17, 2019 photo, The Supreme Court is shown in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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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Hogan asks Frosh to sue Pa., EPA over bay cleanup efforts

January 8, 2020 Comments Off on Hogan asks Frosh to sue Pa., EPA over bay cleanup efforts

Water flows through Conowingo Dam, a hydroelectric dam spanning the lower Susquehanna River near Conowingo, Md., on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Officials once counted on the dam to block large amounts of sediment in the Susquehanna from reaching Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, but the reservoir behind the dam has filled with sediment far sooner than expected. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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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EPA official: Chesapeake Bay pollution goals ‘an aspiration’

January 6, 2020 Comments Off on EPA official: Chesapeake Bay pollution goals ‘an aspiration’

Recent comments from the head of the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program about pollution limits designed to improve the health of the bay have sparked concern among environmental groups and some Maryland officials.

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Chesapeake Bay oysters get more attention at pivotal time

December 24, 2019 Comments Off on Chesapeake Bay oysters get more attention at pivotal time

In a Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019 photo, Robert T. Brown, right, president of the Maryland Waterman's Association, dredges for oysters with Matt Bernd on the Chesapeake Bay near Ridge, Md. A study estimated market-sized oysters dropped from 600 million in 1999 to about 300 million in the Maryland portion of the bay in 2018. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Robert T. Brown pulled an oyster shell from a pile freshly harvested by a dredger from the Chesapeake Bay and talked enthusiastically about the larvae attached — a sign of a future generation critical to the health of the nation's largest estuary.

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Some Chesapeake Bay states fighting EPA clean water rule rollback

October 10, 2019 Comments Off on Some Chesapeake Bay states fighting EPA clean water rule rollback

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh successfully argued that not every criticism of a person holding a position of public trust addresses a matter of public concern. (The Daily Record/File Photo)

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency revoked two regulations last month dealing with clean water and air that present conflicting positions from the Trump Administration over the role states should play in protecting their own natural resources. The first came ...

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Coal plant owner to pay $1M over Chesapeake contamination

August 1, 2019 Comments Off on Coal plant owner to pay $1M over Chesapeake contamination

The owner of a coal plant on a river north of Maryland may have to pay a $1 million fine over pollution leaking into the river and flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.

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