7+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1173+ words) The fertilization of farm fields with treated sewage sludge that contains toxic "forever chemicals" would be regulated under legislation passed during Maryland's 2026 General Assembly. (Tim Heaton/CC BY-SA 2. 0) Maryland legislators struggled to close a $1. 5 billion budget gap during their 90-session…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago  (798+ words) Ted Henifin, former manager of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, shows off the SWIFT Research Center in 2018 in Virginia Beach. (Courtesy of Hampton Roads Sanitation District) Water used to practically burst out of the ground when well diggers tapped into…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1247+ words) Looking for a place to stroll or bicycle through a dense for" About two dozen people garbed in winter clothes massed at th" An iron bridge carries the rail trail over Pine Creek near Tiadaghton State Forest in Lycoming County,…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (507+ words) A small wetland is hemmed in by new houses in a subdivision in Delmar, DE." In the wake of federal court rulings that have rolled back protections for freshwater wetlands, a bipartisan effort in the First State is pushing back....

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (323+ words) After a ferocious winter, the ice is finally gone. The redbuds and dogwoods have bloomed, and it's time to welcome avian visitors and passers-through from the south. From February to May, the Atlantic Flyway " the migration superhighway that runs from…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (663+ words) Bloom Force students will add their landscaping designs to Purpose Park in Norfolk, VA, in 2026. Plants seem to wave hello to cars whizzing past Purpose Park in Norfolk, VA. Once a parking lot, the green oasis provides pedestrians with a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (251+ words) Green floater mussels, once common in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, is now considered by the Nature Serve Network to be imperiled or critically imperiled in all Bay states. (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service) At the bottom of our streams and rivers…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (922+ words) Workers with the York Salvage Yard Fire Unified Command replace a pollution-catching boom along a Codorus Creek tributary in York, PA, on March 6, 2026, after significant rainfall. (Courtesy of the York County PA Office of Emergency Management) A Pennsylvania scrap yard…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (930+ words) What's going on now is a huge wealth transfer from consumers to some of the richest companies on earth " That's David Lapp, whose Office of People's Counsel in Maryland works to rein in the burgeoning costs of electricity driven by…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago  (291+ words) The nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus cause algae blooms that cloud the water. A gradually increasing trend in rainfall is driving more nutrient pollution off the land and into streams." The wastewater treatment plant operated by the city of Frederick, MD,…...