By Staff Reports on 26 October 2009
Sessions on Bay TMDL Scheduled in Six States, D.C.
Posted in Environment | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA
By Staff Reports on 5 October 2009
Chesapeake Bay regulation changes.
Posted in Environment | Tagged channel erosion, Chesapeake Bay, downstream flooding, Tim Kaine
By Staff Reports on 29 September 2009
Hampton Roads Sanitation District owns up to overflow issue.
Posted in Environment, Regional | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads Sanitation District, pollution
By Staff Reports on 10 September 2009
Federal agencies today released the seven draft reports required by President Obama’s executive order on the Chesapeake Bay, which contain a range of proposed strategies for accelerating cleanup of the nation’s largest estuary and its vast watershed.
Posted in Environment | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Environmental Protection Agency
By Staff Reports on 21 August 2009
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mid-Atlantic region today announced the launch of a web site dedicated to the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) – a major initiative to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay and local waters. The web site allows the public to stay tuned to key developments, draft work products, schedules of public meetings and events, and have questions answered about the process.
Posted in Environment, Regional | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, TDML, Total Maximum Daily Load
By Staff Reports on 1 June 2009
Governor Timothy M. Kaine today joined Congressman Bobby Scott, Secretary of Natural Resources L. Preston Bryant and representatives from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency to announce federal grants awarded to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Posted in Environment, Financial | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Shenandoah Valley, stormwater pollution
By Staff Reports on 22 May 2009
Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that the Commonwealth and The Nature Conservancy have purchased 4,188 acres of environmentally extraordinary land within the Dragon Run watershed from the Hancock Timber Resource Group. This purchase brings the total land conservation under Governor Kaine to 335,000 acres, well on pace to meet his goal of preserving 400,000 acres during his term.
Posted in Environment | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Commonwealth and The Nature Conservancy, Dragon Run
By Staff Reports on 11 May 2009
Seven sites in Virginia have received national recognition by being accepted into a new national system of marine protected areas. The Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality along with two of the program’s member agencies, the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Marine Resources Commission, nominated the areas for inclusion in the national system.
Posted in Environment | Tagged blue crab, Chesapeake Bay, Northumberland County, Virginia Beach
By Staff Reports on 17 April 2009
Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley today announced the Chesapeake Bay’s adult population of blue crabs has increased substantially over last year, indicating management measures put into place in 2008 to address population declines are working.
Posted in Environment | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Martin O'Malley, Tim Kaine
By Staff Reports on 19 December 2008
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission unanimously adopted a fishing guide license system that will open up Maryland waters to Virginia charter boats for the first time in more than a decade, solving a longstanding complaint of many charter boat captains. A two-tiered guide license system was approved, one license open to all charter boats plying Virginia’s saltwaters and the other limited in number but to be honored by Maryland as part of a reciprocal agreement that Maryland officials have tentatively accepted. The new licenses are to go on sale next week.
Posted in News, Regional | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Coast Guard, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
