Chesapeake Bay hypoxia — waters with less than 2 milligrams of oxygen per liter — remained well below average in early August 2026 before rising to just above the long-term average by late August, ...

President Donald Trump has revoked a 17-year-old executive order that established a coordinated federal strategy for restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay, replacing it with a new directive that ...

President Donald Trump revoked a 17-year-old Chesapeake Bay protection policy last week, claiming states and localities had improperly relied upon it to impose stormwater management fees on residents ...

President Trump on Sept. 16 repealed a policy that has guided federal participation in Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts for ...

President Donald Trump rescinded an Obama-era executive order that called for federal leadership in the effort to restore the ...

President Donald Trump has revoked a 17-year-old federal order requiring federal, state and local governments to work ...

For more than a century, the 1902 Hooper Island Lighthouse has stood three miles offshore in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Years ...

For more than a century, the 1902 Hooper Island Lighthouse has stood three miles offshore in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Years of exposure have left the historic structure badly in need of repair, but ...

Just months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states to renew their pledge to restore the nation's largest ...

The Trump administration has repealed an executive order that sought to coordinate the efforts of federal, state and local governments to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week revoking an order that has mandated states and municipalities to ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rescinding a 17-year-old directive that established coordinated federal leadership over Chesapeake Bay restoration, drawing swift condemnation from ...