Items Tagged with 'Chesapeake Bay'

Maryland has received federal approval to conduct an environmental study to help find a location for a new Chesapeake Bay crossing.

Big boulders are causing big headaches for Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel expansion project, adding to other issues that have pushed the $756 million effort two years behind its original 2022 completion target.

Exelon is challenging Maryland water-quality requirements, which are linked to a 50-year federal license renewal to continue Conowingo Dam operations on the Susquehanna River.

Hampton Roads in Virginia—seven communities and 11 federal facilities—is facing one of the worst combinations of erosion, subsidence and sea-level rise in the nation.

For years, Chesapeake Bay has been the subject of dire reports: dwindling fish, crab and oyster populations, loss of native underwater grasses, eroding shorelines, murky water and algae blooms caused by excessive levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.