WASHINGTON — Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford attended the Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council meeting Thursday where members announced strategies for meeting the goals of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe hosted the meeting, which was attended by Washington, ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Farm groups said Tuesday that they were appealing a judge’s decision to uphold federal pollution limits that are designed to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, by more tightly regulating wastewater treatment, ...

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CUMBERLAND — Allegany County officials and contractors are working to clean up a neglected property on Irons Mountain that’s been the subject of litigation that reached the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. The Cumberland Times-News reports that county officials and ...

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PITTSBURGH — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say a water quality problem in the Monongahela River that may have been linked to Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling is going away. Jeanne VanBriesen said Thursday that preliminary data from tests this ...

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OAKLAND — Garrett County officials are reviewing their response to Superstorm Sandy, which dumped 3 feet of heavy, wet snow, and caused catastrophic damage to the power system, closed roads and threatened communications networks. At a briefing Thursday in Oakland, ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — Authorities in Ellicott City are considering reopening Main Street four days after a train derailment that killed two women. Howard County police said they planned to meet late Friday afternoon with CSX Corp. officials overseeing the cleanup ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — A federal investigator said Wednesday that a coal train that derailed in Maryland was going the authorized speed of 25 miles per hour with the engineer-in-training at the controls before the fatal accident. Investigators were checking videos, ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray is the new chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, the policy-making body of the program overseeing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. Gray’s election came Monday at the annual meeting ...

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MOUNT VERNON, Va. — The key players in the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay are meeting in northern Virginia to assess the progress of the massive undertaking. The annual meeting of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s executive council begins at 10:30 ...

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ROCKVILLE — A trash dropoff site in Montgomery County says more than 4,800 tons of tree debris has been dropped off at the facility following last week’s storms. Peter Karasik, the manager of the Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer ...

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