Pollution keeps flowing past the Conowingo Dam toward the Chesapeake Bay, but it's unclear who is going to pay to offset it. A new strategy outlines how it might be done.
A draft Conowingo Dam Watershed Implementation Plan shows Pennsylvania offers the best, most effective opportunities for reducing an additional 6.41 million pounds of nitrogen before it can get into the Chesapeake Bay.
Shannon Gority, executive director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, said that an increase in the number of miles of impaired waters sends a clear message that not enough is being done to clean and protect rivers and streams.
The H2Ohio program is incentivizing conservation practices. Will it address growing water quality woes and appease continued calls for more direct action?
The Environmental Integrity Project’s analysis estimates that about 1 million more pounds of nitrogen pollution are entering the Chesapeake Bay each year from the poultry industry than state and federal cleanup programs estimate.
A conservation group announced Monday that it's preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce the Clean Water Act relating to pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay.
Jane Worthington moved her grandkids to protect them from oil and gas wells—but it didn't work. In US fracking communities, the industry's pervasiveness causes social strain and mental health problems.
"I was a total cheerleader for this industry at the beginning. Now I just want to make sure no one else makes the same mistake I did. It has ruined my life."
EHN.org scientific investigation finds western Pennsylvania families near fracking are exposed to harmful chemicals, and regulations fail to protect communities' mental, physical, and social health.
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