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2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (244+ words) David M. Higgins II is an award-winning journalist and founder of The Southern Maryland Chronicle. A Baltimore native raised in Southern Maryland, Higgins founded the Chronicle in 2017 and has built it into a trusted source for local news across the region....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (186+ words) The Cumberland Times-News A salt marsh on Kent Island in Queen Anne’s County is part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is repealing a years-old executive order to protect the Chesapeake Bay, evoking indignation from Maryland…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (536+ words) The U.S. Capitol in spring. WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is repealing a years-long executive order that protected and restored the Chesapeake Bay, evoking indignation from Maryland delegation members worried about the health of the ecosystem. The original executive order, enacted in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (454+ words) Good morning. Partly sunny with a high around 81 today. A low near 64 overnight. The Mystics host the Atlanta Dream for a must-win playoff game at CareFirst Arena this evening. (Why not Capital One Arena? Well, for one thing, the Jonas…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (906+ words) Maryland environmental experts and advocates are concerned about future federal support for Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts after President Donald Trump revoked a 2009 order that coordinated work to restore the bay. Trump’s Sept. 16 executive order that revoked the Obama-era decree also…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1689+ words) $5,000 Match Challenge to Support Warren County Children on Give Like Dolly Day Virginia State Police Seize More Than $1 Million in Drugs During Weeklong Operations Blue Ridge Wildlife Center Patient of the Week: Eastern Cottontail County Supervisors Fill Vacant Planning Commission…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (109+ words) Bay to Bay News State renews Chesapeake Bay Shared Stewardship Agreement DOVER — State forester Kyle Hoyd joined other regional leaders to renew the Chesapeake Bay Shared Stewardship Agreement on Sept. 16. In so doing, Hoyd and other forestry officials from across…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (278+ words) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (7News) — A new executive order from President Donald Trump is changing the federal government’s approach to Chesapeake Bay restoration — including directing federal officials to examine stormwater fees often referred to as “rain taxes.” Trump signed the order on Sept.16, revoking…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1144+ words) President Donald Trump’s executive order to end the federal “rain tax” mandate, signed last week as U.S. Rep Rob Bresnahan Jr. watched, does not actually end a stormwater management fee some Luzerne County communities pay to help clean up…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (623+ words) President Donald Trump last week repealed a 2009 executive order that had helped coordinate the long-running effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. The order from President Barack Obama renewed federal commitments to restoring the bay and pushed government agencies and…...