Chesapeake Bay Foundation

As he steps down after four decades as president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the activist looks back at his efforts and looks ahead at the prospects for the still-troubled watershed.

How and why are ‘forever chemicals’ showing up in our drinking water ... and what’s being done about it? Plus, as Will Baker completes 40 years heading the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, we ask why the Bay still gets a grade of D-plus.

In the world of climate related bills, it’s not often you hear of a legislative hearing that draws minimal opposition, or where labor and environmental…

The Chesapeake Bay isn’t in as good a shape as it was two years ago, but it’s not because of pollution. That’s according to the Chesapeake Bay…

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, three bay states and the District of Columbia sued the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, charging it has failed to…

Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program has pronounced the bay’s blue crab stocks stable, not overfished and not in…

It was 36 years ago this week that the leaders of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia signed the first agreement to clean up the…

Ten years ago, President Obama issued an executive order requiring Maryland and Virginia to restore oyster populations, decimated by disease,…

It’s an old Chesapeake tradition, paving driveways, decorating gardens and the bases of rural mailboxes with oyster shells. But it may give way to a…

President Trump's budget blueprint to "Make American Great Again" cuts $73 million from EPA, the entire budget for the Chesapeake Bay Program, the…