Timothy Wheeler

Twenty-three years after agreeing to fix Baltimore’s leaky sewer system, city officials say they won’t be able to finish the job by 2030, as promised nine years ago.

It was bound to happen sometime somewhere, and now it has. Queen Anne’s County, the fast-growing gateway to Maryland’s Eastern Shore, which promotes itself as the place “where Shore living

The Chesapeake Bay watershed is adding enough runoff-inducing pavement and buildings every year to completely cover an area the size of Staunton, VA, new data shows.

Talk about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. That’s just what Nevaeh Murphy managed to do on her second try one muggy July morning.

A Maryland judge has sided with environmental groups and ordered state regulators to tighten up pollution limits on an Eastern Shore poultry rendering plant with a history of violations.

More striped bass fishing restrictions loom as East Coast fishery managers weigh whether to ratchet down already tightened catch limits for the struggling finfish known in the Chesapeake Bay region

Striped bass continue to suffer from poor reproduction in the Chesapeake Bay, the latest surveys show, increasing pressure on fishery managers to maintain or even tighten catch restrictions on the

It’s a little shocking, so to speak, to see how many blue catfish can be caught with an electric jolt instead of a net or baited hook.

Two years after abandoning controversial plans for a large indoor salmon farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a Norwegian aquaculture company is back with a new proposed location that it hopes

A Southern Maryland public utility has agreed to pay a $250,000 penalty and to repair and upgrade its wastewater collection system to prevent chronic overflows of raw sewage into tributaries

A planned warehouse development in Harford County, MD, that tested the strength of Maryland’s forest conservation law has been abandoned, ending a long legal struggle but leaving the fate of

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to investigate a civil rights complaint against Baltimore alleging that Black and Hispanic communities in the southern part of the city suffer disproportionate

Environmental justice and clean air and water advocates who have been fighting for years to clean up or shut down a polluting trash-burning incinerator in heavily industrialized South Baltimore are

Feel like jumping in Baltimore’s harbor? Here’s your chance. The city’s Waterfront Partnership, convinced that it’s finally safe to swim there after a 14-year cleanup campaign, has scheduled an organized

The Chesapeake Bay watershed’s checkerboard approach to “forever chemicals” is finally beginning to end. The cost to water utility customers — and the timeline for real action — remains to

Maryland’s 2024 General Assembly session yielded what one activist called “a mixed bag” of legislation dealing with the Chesapeake Bay, climate change and environmental justice.

For the last few years, leaders of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor campaign have been saying the once trash-strewn and sewage-tainted water is clean enough for swimming, at least on most days.

The fortunes of the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crabs can be read in the bottom of the estuary and its rivers.