Efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay will soon get a boost in funding.

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A panel representing the six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is meeting after heavy rains brought debris downstream.

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ANNAPOLIS — A week’s worth of heavy rains and a wetter than usual July has polluted the Chesapeake Bay with debris and sediment, and Comptroller Peter Franchot has an idea who is to blame: Pennsylvania and New York. “To be ...

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday defended as apolitical efforts to protect Marylanders his office’s legal challenges to President Trump’s restrictions on immigration from majority-Muslim countries, the marketing of the president’s Washington hotel and his administration’s rollback of regulations ...

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A coalition of environmental groups and foundations has made a goal of adding 10 billion oysters to the Chesapeake Bay over the next several years.

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Maryland took another step toward resolving the pollution crisis at the Conowingo Dam, awarding a contract Thursday for a demonstration project to remove sediment that overflows the dam and pollutes the Chesapeake Bay. Northgate-Dutra Joint Venture won the contract, issued ...

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A nonprofit publication covering the Chesapeake Bay is appealing the Environmental Protection Agency’s termination of a multi-year grant supporting its production and suing over a failure to provide requested records pertaining to the decision. In August, the EPA notified Bay Journal ...

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Interstate fishing regulators are deciding whether they want to change the way they manage a tiny fish that plays a critical role in the ocean's food chain.

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Gov. Larry Hogan Tuesday said the state will move forward with plans to find a solution to sediment that has built up behind the Conowingo dam and is polluting the Chesapeake Bay. Hogan, in an announcement at the dam following a ...

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A boat ride and ladder climb could be part of your commute to a wood-floored Maryland home on the Chesapeake Bay. The Baltimore Sun reported on Tuesday that a lighthouse first lit in 1873 is being auctioned online. The Craighill Channel ...

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