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Federal and state leaders currently steering a nearly 40-year effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay acknowledged this week that they will likely fall short of their longstanding 2025 cleanup deadline, now just a little more than three years away. During an Oct. 11 meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council, a senior policy-making body for the cleanup…

By Josh Kurtz, September 22, 2022, Maryland Matters The state of Maryland and local governments in the Baltimore area have spent about $1 billion on the city’s Back River and Patapsco wastewater treatment plants over the past decade. So when Sen. Guy Guzzone (D-Howard), chair of the Budget and Taxation Committee, first heard about multiple water…

Karl Blankenship, Sept 6, 2022 It has taken more than four years, but leaders in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort say they’ve found a path forward for dealing with the added pollution stemming from Conowingo Dam. It’s a solution that could soon ramp up pollution controls in the Susquehanna River basin, which drains the Bay’s…

July 28th, 2022 With a 2025 deadline looming for states to meet aggressive federal goals for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, members of Maryland’s congressional delegation met Wednesday on Capitol Hill with two women who will be integral parts of the public-private strategy for eradicating pollution in the nation’s largest estuary. Eight of the 10…

Posted on July 2 by Chris Montcalmo TOWSON, MD —The Baltimore County Department of Health has issued a water quality advisory for tidal Back River in the vicinity of Cox Park. Recent sampling in that area indicates high levels of bacteria that could prove harmful with direct contact. “In response to recent public health concerns around water…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) has been ordered to stop work on artificial reefs on the Lynnhaven River.  This comes after several complaints and pictures showing what the VMRC considers non-compliance.  10 On Your Side obtained pictures that clearly show what the Virginia Marine Resources Commission considers a substantial violation…

June 10, 2022, Department of the Environment *We will be reviewing the agreement and Consent Order below and monitor the enforcement thereof. BALTIMORE (June 10, 2022) – The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and Baltimore City leadership have reached an agreement that charts a course for continued progress at the Back River Wastewater Treatment…

May 13, 2022, The Talbot Spy This 1900 photograph of the Washington Monument in Baltimore is from the Maryland Historical Society’s archives and is included in a Wikipedia article. This is no mistake. Please read on to see the many-faceted connection between the Washington Monument and Belvedere Shoals.The United States Coast Guard, out of its…

May 10, 2022 – Maryland Matters Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced on Monday that Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Environment Horacio Tablada will succeed current Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles starting June 1. Grumbles is leaving to become executive director of the Environmental Council of the States, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan association…

May 9, 2022 – Maryland Department of the Environment ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today announced the appointment of Horacio Tablada as secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Tablada currently serves as deputy secretary of the Department of the Environment. He has more than three decades of experience as an environmental leader in Maryland, with…