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Virginia tells Richmond airport to reduce its use of ‘forever chemicals’

Concerns around the nearly indestructible family of pollutants known as PFAS have been growing as environmental groups have ...
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Virginia program can lower rooftop solar costs by 23%

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, Solar United Neighbors and their partners are launching the Switch Together initiative that ...
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Chesapeake grass beds expand for fifth year in a row

Chesapeake Bay underwater grass beds expanded for the fifth consecutive year in 2025, driven in large part by the surprising ...
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Virginia increases hunting, fishing fees first time in 14 years

The Virginia Board of Wildlife Resources approved new fees on Aug. 20 for hunting, fishing, trapping, boating and primitive ...
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USDA rule repeal could lead to logging in Pennsylvania, Virginia forests

The U.S. Forest Service under the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a proposed rule on Aug. 18 to fully rescind the 2001 ...
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Bill proposes scarlet tanager as Pennsylvania’s official migratory bird

For generations, grade school children across Pennsylvania have learned the official plant and animal symbols for the state, ...
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Public hearings set on curbing Bay menhaden harvest

Hearings have been set along the Atlantic coast to let the public weigh in on whether to reduce the large-scale harvest of ...
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Pollution from development still flowing into Gunpowder River

Muddy runoff from Ridgely’s Reserve, a large housing development in Joppa, MD, continues to foul Foster Branch and the ...
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Virginia sewer upgrade will reduce pollution in rivers

Alexandria Renew Enterprises, or AlexRenew, completed its overhaul of the city of combined sewer system serving Alexandria, ...
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Dams give way to better habitat in Chesapeake Bay region

Cover photo: Corinne Griffith-Butler and Adam Schellhammer of American Rivers search for freshwater mussels after the 2025 removal of an obsolete dam on the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River in ...
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Data centers face bans, moratoriums across Bay region

This article has been updated to state that the Amazon project in Calvert County, MD, was retracted by its developers and to better reflect the community effort in obtaining access to emails between ...
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Seventy years later, the words of Gilbert Klingel still hit home

I have attempted to set down something of the character of the Bay and its moods … the sleek, still calms, the gray fogs, the sparkling lusty northwesters, the goodly smell of the swamps … and ...