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08 Nov 2018
Tom and Andrew's Blog
Many are asking what yesterday's election will mean for the Bay. Our staff are assessing the new political landscape and the opportunities and challenges that may lie ahead.
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08 Nov 2018
This Week's Election
Many are asking what Tuesday's election will mean for the Bay. Our staff are assessing the new political landscape and the opportunities and challenges that may lie ahead.
Topics: About CBF, Advocacy, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Chesapeake Oyster Alliance, Climate Change, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Water Quality
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07 Nov 2018
This Month on the Bay: From Fall Colors to Dead Leaves
Tuesday's elections may determine the success or failure of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup.
Topics: Kent Island's Four Seasons Development, Fun, Trees
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02 Nov 2018
This Week in the Watershed: The Bay Ballot
Tuesday's elections may determine the success or failure of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup.
Topics: Air Pollution, Politics, Water Quality
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27 Oct 2018
The Chesapeake Bay’s Environmental Success Story Is in Danger
The Trump administration is threatening to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, but it’s not too late to turn things around.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Climate Change, Runoff Pollution, Water Quality
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26 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Your Air at Risk
Most living creatures, whether they walk, swim, or crawl, are harmed by poor air quality. And if the EPA rolls back two critical Clean Air Act initiatives, our climate, health, and water quality could suffer.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Climate Change, Politics
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24 Oct 2018
Ten Million New Trees Can Stem the Tide of Rushing Waters
One of the most ambitious and challenging efforts to reduce the pollutant payload that flows into the Susquehanna, other Commonwealth waterways, and down to the Chesapeake Bay has taken root—the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership.
Topics: Conservation, Forest Loss, Keystone Ten Million Trees Partnership, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, The Susquehanna River, Water Quality
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19 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Dropping Temps, Changing Bay
Autumn is officially here, as temperatures have plummeted this past week. And the Bay and its rivers and streams are reacting to the dramatic shift.
Topics: Fisheries, Fishing, Water Quality
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17 Oct 2018
CBF’s Rain Garden Maintenance Specialist Brings Environmental Justice to a Harrisburg Neighborhood
Garden mud, rain, and rocks were Rafiyqa Muhammad's playground growing up in a south-Harrisburg, PA neighborhood. Today, she's back in that neighborhood, empowering the community through rain gardens and green infrastructure.
Topics: Community, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, Restoration
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12 Oct 2018
This Week in the Watershed: An Oyster Revival
Before the Chesapeake was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608, the Bay was known for its oysters. But the magnitude of the Bay's oyster population has dropped precipitously since the days when Smith wrote that oysters "lay thick as stones."
Topics: Community, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Fishing, Restoration, Water Quality
What's Up in Pennsylvania
State and federal conservation programs provide critical funding and support to farmers who want to incorporate best management practices such as contour stripcropping (shown here), which keep valuable nutrients on farms and out of local streams and the Bay.
Tim McCabe/NRCS
