A cormorant flaps its wings as a water scooter passes through the Chesapeake Bay’s Brewerton Channel near Pasadena, Maryland, ...

Lawmakers will travel to the Eastern shore of Virginia to learn about environmental impacts facing farmers and the clean up of the Chesapeake Bay.

When they last signed a Chesapeake Bay cleanup agreement in 2014, officials from seven jurisdictions set ambitious targets ...

In Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna River cuts through the state's farmland, picking up polluted runoff before pouring into the Chesapeake in Maryland — producing about half of its fresh water supply.

Progress and Challenges Ahead Under the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, states initially committed to a 2025 deadline for reducing nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation graph on how nitrogen reduction progress by state. Hilary Falk, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation director, wants the states to recommit to the blueprint.

Think of Chesapeake Bay clean-up like a long-term, extremely large group project involving seven jurisdictions, several federal agencies and numerous local partners. Like any group project, it can ...

Virginia did not reach its 2023 pollution reduction targets for nitrogen and phosphorus, according to modeling tools from the Chesapeake Bay Program, but the commonwealth is on track for reducing ...

Bay states did not accomplish the nutrient pollution reductions in the Chesapeake 2000 plan, which preceded the current framework.

NORFOLK, Va. — The Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries had over 67,000 acres of underwater grasses in 2021, a nearly 9% growth from 2020, but around 38% lower than its all-time recorded ...

A survey by OpinionWorks and Chesapeake Bay Behavior Change shows voters care about pollution. Meanwhile, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found Virginia, along with Maryland and Pennsylvania, are ...