Chesapeake Bay

Why Did O'Malley Cross the Road? Because Big Chicken Told Him To

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: O'malley, Perdue, Chesapeake Bay, Clean Water Act, Martin O'Malley, Martin O'malley Iowa, Martin O'malley Maryland, Martin O'malley Perdue, Maryland, Martin O'malley Chicken, Green News
Scott Edwards

Gov. O'Malley's closeness to Perdue was evidenced in 70 pages of emails acquired under a freedom of information request -- but subsequent disclosures indicate that the relationship may be even more tangled than was originally thought.

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Banking on the Bay

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Usda, Tmdl, Pollution, Financialization of Nature, Pollution Trading, Water Quality Trading, Chesapeake Bay, DC News
Wenonah Hauter

Water pollution trading is creeping into the non-regulatory landscape across the country and in the Bay watershed. That's good news for those looking to profit off the losses of others, but bad news for anyone who cares about water quality,

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Turning 40: Avoiding a Midlife Crisis for the Clean Water Act

Mekell Mikell | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Omb, Mississippi River Delta, Epa, Chesapeake Bay, The Standells, National Wildlife Federation, Prairie Pothole, Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Basin, Clean Water Act, Wildlife, Wetlands, Streams, Lakes, Video, Green News
Mekell Mikell

Before the Clean Water Act, pollution was so bad that water bodies like the Cuyahoga River in Ohio and the Charles River in Massachusetts caught on fire faster than a batch of birthday candles.

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Plan Revealed To Save Chesapeake Oysters

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Video, Chesapeake Oysters Restoration, Chesapeake Seafood, Oyster Restoration, Chesapeake Oysters, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Restoration, Oysters, Food, Army Corps of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers Chesapeake, Chesapeake Cleanup, Green News

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers unveiled its restoration plan for Chesapeake oysters on Tuesday, a bay-wide look that officials said mo...

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Rachel Tepper

Local Fishers Deliver Invasive Potomac River Menace To Legendary Manhattan Eatery

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: DC News, John Rorapaugh, Gramercy Tavern, Ny News, Snakehead, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Alewife, Michael Anthony, Fish, Chesapeake Bay, DC Restaurants, NY Restaurants, Barton Seaver, Fishing, Scott Drewno, The Source, Potomac River, DC News

WASHINGTON -- A hideous, mucus-coated Asian fish feared for its species-killing potential in rivers along the East Coast finally has found powerful ad...

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VIDEO, PHOTOS: Thousands Take Polar Bear Plunge

AP | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Polar Bear Plunge, Special Olympics, Video, Sandy Point State Park, Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge, Chesapeake Bay, Annapolis, Maryland, DC News

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Thousands of people clad in bathing trunks, bikinis and even some woolly winter hats have taken the Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesa...

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Debunking the Myth

William C. Baker | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Chesapeake TMDL, Chesapeake Bay, Environment, Clean Water, Regulation, Pollution, Job Creation, DC News
William C. Baker

The idea that clean air and clean water must be sacrificed for job growth is nothing less than absurd. Just the opposite is true.

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'Green News Report' - January 5, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Antarctica, Fracking, Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Dioxin, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Chevron Ecuador, Coal, Sharks, Offshore Drilling, Antibiotic Resistance, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Insurance, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Superbugs, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chevron, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Maple Syrup, Factory Farming, Nuclear Power, Brazil, Ecuador, Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalism, Subsidies, New York, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Video, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Riots ove...

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With the Chesapeake Bay, Solving a Complex Leadership Problem

Tom Fox | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Stakeholders, Leadership, Conservation, Partnerships, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Government, Katherine Antos, Chesapeake Bay, Smarter Ideas, Green News
Tom Fox

"Much of the work the federal government does relies on effective partnerships, and cleaning up the river and streams that flow into the Chesapeake Bay is no exception."

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Cleaning Up the Chesapeake Bay, One Electric Motor at a Time

Robin Madel | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Sally Reuther, Electric Motors, Boats, Water Pollution, Biodiesel, Annapolis Hybrid Marine, Chesapeake Bay, DC News
Robin Madel

When Sally Reuther was eight, she and her cousins built a raft on the four acres behind their grandmother's house in Kentucky, intending to float it on a little land-locked pond.

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The Greenest Garden in Washington

Nigel Sheinwald | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: UK, British Embassy, Nigel Sheinwald, Beekeeping, Washington, Food, Greens, Green Living, Greenhouse, Green, Dc, Fruit, Kitchen Garden, Bees, Garden, White House Kitchen Garden, Ukinusa, Environment, Diplomacy, British, Water, Gardeining, Environmental, Chesapeake Bay, Green News
Nigel Sheinwald

The British poet Alexander Pope once observed that, "All gardening is landscape-painting." But today's gardeners need to be environmental stewards as well as aesthetes.

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Trapped Dam Sediment A Ticking Time Bomb For Chesapeake

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Sediment, Video, Conowingo Dam, Pennsylvania, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Phosphorus, Water, Chesapeake Bay, Nitrogen, Susquehanna River, Maryland, DC News

WASHINGTON -- When Tropical Storm Lee sent record amounts of water down the Susquehanna River from Pennsylvania into Chesapeake Bay in September, it a...

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Be Careful What You Cut

William C. Baker | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Farm Bill, Super Committee, Budget Cuts, Water Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, 2008 Farm Bill, Conservation Incentives, Budget Crisis, Pollution, Chesapeake Region, DC News
William C. Baker

At a time when the Bay states are asking farmers to do more to reduce pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay, there is danger that conservation incentives secured for Bay farmers in the last Farm Bill will be greatly reduced.

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Chesapeake Bay Under Agri-Chemical Attack

William C. Baker | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Chesapeake Bay Pollution, Chesapeake TMDL, Total Maximum Daily Load, Chesapeake Bay Protection, Protect Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Tmdl, EPA Chesapeake, DC News
William C. Baker

Pollution is illegal, and we know how to stop it. We just need to stand up to those who are trying to subvert the Clean Water Act. Allow government to enforce the law!

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Eating to Save Chesapeake Bay, One Oyster At A Time

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Video, Equinox, Matchbox, Chesapeake Bay, Oysters, Food, Kinkead's, Graffiato, Bistro Bis, Hank's Oyster Bar, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Local restaurants that rely on fresh seafood from the Chesapeake Bay are banding together for the Oyster Recovery Partnership's latest s...

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Can't Fake It: Man Who Staged Own Death Gets 7 Years In Prison

AP | By BROCK VERGAKIS | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Maryland Crime, Video, Fake Death, Larry Deffenbaugh Sentenced, Crime, Larry Deffenbaugh, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Crime News

By BROCK VERGAKIS, The Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. -- A Maryland man who faked his death by jumping into the Chesapeake Bay was sentenced Monday ...

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Kids Help Chesapeake Bay By Planting Oysters (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Maryland Grows Oysters, Video, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Chesapeake Bay, Oysters, Environment, Maryland, Oyster Recovery Partnership, DC News

On Friday, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Oyster Recovery Partnership delivered 20 cages of oyster spat to the Chesapeake Montes...

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A Huffington Post Guide To Family Vacations In Maryland

The Huffington Post | Jane Ellis | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: National Aquarium Baltimore, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Annapolis Travel, Chesapeake Bay, Annapolis, Family Vacations in Maryland, Baltimore-Travel, Maryland Travel, Destinations, Skiing, Video, Family Travel Guides, US Destinations, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Themed Guides, Maryland, Travel News

Family vacations in Maryland can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters — it all depends on pre-trip homework. To make planning easier, we'v...

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Lynne Peeples

Blooming Health Hazard: New Shellfish Poison Found In U.S. Waters

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Shellfish Poisoning, Environmental Health, Nutrient-Runoff, Algal Bloom, Chesapeake Bay, Environment, Algae, Climate Change, Puget Sound, Red Tide, Video, Green News

The bright red skull-and-crossbones signs are hard to miss and increasingly common on Pacific Northwest beaches. A whole new fleet just popped up alon...

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House Committee Launches Most Significant Attack on the Clean Water Act in at Least 15 Years

Steve Fleischli | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Congress, HR 2018, Mountaintop Removal, Rollbacks, Water Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, Clean Water Act, Clean Water, Green News
Steve Fleischli

H.R. 2018 takes the "federal" out of the federal Clean Water Act and highlights a new disdain for the federal government's role in environmental protection.

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Man Born Without Limbs To Swim Chesapeake Bay

WGAL | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Quadriplegic Man, No Limbs, Life Without Limbs, Quadriplegic, Born Without Limbs, Good News, Chesapeake Bay, Craig Dietz, Impact News

A man born without arms or legs takes a daunting challenge, to swim across the Chesapeake Bay. ...

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Why EPA Needs to Take Charge of Cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Farming, Fishing Industry, Water Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, Epa, Farm Bureau, Green News
Gary Liberson, PhD

Tip O'Neill (D-MA), the former Speaker of The House (1977-1987), used to say: "All politics is local." This quote screams out as a cacophony when o...

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Is It Worth Cleaning the Chesapeake If There Are No More Watermen?

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water, Farm Bureau, Chesapeake Bay, Oysters, Fishermen, Doi, Rockfish, Epa, Green News
Gary Liberson, PhD

Biologists and regulators are trying to save the Chesapeake Bay, but in doing so they are endangering the local waterman to such a degree that by the time the Bay is saved the fisherman will be gone.

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Curiouser and Curiouser: How the Hill Is Handling Being in the Hole

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations, Chesapeake Bay, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Air Quality, United States, Pollution, Mike Beard, Betty McCollum, U.S. Military, Todd Stern, John Shimkus, Religion, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Nascar, Oil, Unfccc, Coal Ash, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Offshore Energy, Ted Poe, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...

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'Oyster Reefs Are Disappearing: Foodies Fine, Ocean Sad'

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aquaculture, Oyster Reef, Fish Farming, Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, Oysters, Sustainable-Fisheries, New York, Seafood, Shellfish, Food News
Peter Hanlon

85 percent of oyster reefs have been lost globally. In many bays, once-plentiful oyster reefs are now functionally extinct. But shellfish lovers shouldn't panic -- most of the oysters they eat today are farmed.

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