September 27, 2009

Farms in watershed play pivotal role in bay’s health

You couldn’t see water from Robbie Newcomb’s cornfield in Caroline County, just lots of corn and Robbie’s 14-year-old son, J.R., harvesting...

Months ahead may determine Chesapeake Bay’s fate
Months ahead may determine Chesapeake Bay’s fate

The Chesapeake Bay is too beautiful for its own good. If its waters caught fire, as the oil-slick Cuyahoga River famously did in Cleveland in 1969, or...

A primer on the basics of the Chesapeake Bay

If you walk onto the Mayo Bridge by Shockoe Slip and drop a line on the downstream side, you essentially are fishing in the Chesapeake Bay. If you dump...


September 22, 2009

Retired T-D writer honored for bay reporting

Lawrence Latané III, a former staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s conservationist of the year....


September 13, 2009

Chesapeake Bay Virginia’s top environmental issue
By REX SPRINGSTON TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF

The Times-Dispatch recently convened a panel of experts to hear their ideas on dealing with Virginia’s top environmental challenges. Here are excerpts....


September 11, 2009

Obama officials seek new steps to restore Chesapeake Bay

The Obama administration proposed new requirements and incentives yesterday for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. The draft plans call for developing new...

Details of the federal plans for restoring the Chesapeake Bay

Punishing states that allow too much pollution in bay waters—by withholding federal money, for example; creating new regulations to reduce pollution...


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