Increased oyster numbers demonstrate current management is working and must continue.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on Thursday released a comprehensive energy policy roadmap that features options prioritizing transitions to cleaner energy—while forecasting data centers will lik...

This month’s devastating algal bloom that spread along Virginia’s Eastern Shore is sending shockwaves through the Commonwealth’s economy, with hard-hit oyster farmers reporting severe losses and resid...

At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.

District staff from federal legislative offices joined the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on a Lancaster County farm this week to learn about conservation farming practices in Pennsylvania supported by fed...

Governor Wes Moore issued an executive order to clarify oversight requirements and increase public transparency on all new data center proposals in Maryland.

Reports of widespread fish kills are surfacing on the Eastern Shore of Virginia this week as officials continue to track harmful algal blooms, or “red tide,” in area waterways.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on Friday released a framework that would impose significant new guardrails on energy-guzzling data centers by boosting transparency and promoting requirements for...

A coalition of Indigenous tribes announced Monday they are suspending talks with the Chesapeake Bay Program on a longstanding effort to become signatories to the revised Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agree...

Continued funding for key federal programs is essential to meeting restoration targets across the watershed.

Just months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states to renew their pledge to restore the nation's largest estuary, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded an Obama-era executive ord...

The 2009 executive order provided federal leadership, agency coordination, and accountability for Chesapeake Bay restoration, but its repeal has raised concerns about moving backward.

President Donald Trump rescinded an Obama-era executive order Wednesday that had organized the federal response to the Chesapeake Bay cleanup for nearly two decades.

The Trump Administration today issued an executive order on the Chesapeake Bay that repeals Executive Order 13508.

The Trump Administration today announced that the Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back most limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and stated that it plans to repeal the finding that these emissions are a threat to the public.

The 2026 season was the worst year ever recorded for breeding ospreys in the Chesapeake Bay, according to research released Monday by the Center for Conservation Biology at William & Mary.

The Chesapeake Bay Commission (CBC) this week traveled to Tangier, Virginia, where commission members reaffirmed their commitment to work toward the goals outlined in the updated Chesapeake Bay Agreement and highlighted efforts to preserve and protect T...

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Virginia’s popular agricultural cost-share program has contributed significantly to improving local water quality in the Commonwealth and cutting pollution that ultimately flows into the Chesapeake Ba...

Underwater grasses across the Chesapeake Bay reached their highest point since 2018, though some rivers continue to see troubling declines, according to 2025 survey results released today by the Virgi...

Saving menhaden helps save the bay. Now, evidence of a crisis is impossible to ignore.

The Chesapeake Bay watershed faces unprecedented challenges from the data center boom. Congress is considering legislation that would create commonsense protections in the face of growing risks from d...

In this month’s newsletter, we talk blue crabs, menhaden, the rise of vibrio, and much more.

Stand with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and call on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to approve conservation-minded reforms that better protect menhaden and support a healthy Chesapeak...

Atlantic menhaden are the fish that “run the East Coast food web.” So why are they so threatened? Commentary on the recent Washington Post op-ed, “This little fish anchors the East Coast food web. A f...