CBF's Save the Bay Blog features a range of informative, engaging, and hopeful stories about CBF, our work, and conservation issues of the moment. Read on!
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Five Reasons Why the Chesapeake Bay Program Is Critical to Saving the Bay
March 22, 2017
Last week, the Trump Administration issued a preliminary budget that eliminates all funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), a critical part of the state/federal partnership to restore the Bay and its rivers and streams.
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Leave Chesapeake Bay Oyster Sanctuaries Alone
March 21, 2017
In the current hostile political climate, we can't seem to agree on any government policy. But that's exactly what happened in Maryland this past month. A poll found about 90 percent of Maryland voters, across party lines, want the state to protect oyster sanctuaries.
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Chesapeake Bay's Future Imperiled
March 20, 2017
I'm angry and I'm upset. President Donald Trump has proposed something terrible. I'm not willing to trade a healthy Chesapeake Bay for a wall on the Mexican border.
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Yard Make-Over at No Cost
March 17, 2017
Residents of Cambridge, this spring you can win an unusual prize: a yard make-over at no cost.
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Tell Your Legislators You Support Efforts to Clean up Water, Bay
March 14, 2017
The Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint is working. By all metrics we are seeing progress.
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Photo of the Week: Doggy in the Window
March 10, 2017
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One-For-One Replanting Bill Will Help Preserve Maryland's Forests
March 9, 2017
Pit a bulldozer against a tree and the tree rarely wins.
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Stand up for Clean Water
March 8, 2017
Now is the time for Pennsylvanians to stand up for clean water and let elected officials know they should make reducing pollution a higher priority.
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Photo of the Week: The River Enriched Us
March 7, 2017
This photo was taken at Church Point in St. Mary's City, Maryland.
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Save the Bay: Slashes to EPA Funding Would Reverse Years of Progress
March 6, 2017
The Trump administration's plan to cut Environmental Protection Agency staff by a fifth and eliminate key programs raises troubling questions about support for the highly successful Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint.
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The Clean Power Plan: How It Could Affect Chesapeake Bay Restoration
February 28, 2017
In 2005, despite the significant body of scientific evidence showing a correlation between increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and increasing global temperatures, EPA refused to develop regulations curbing the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from power plants, cars, and trucks.
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Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulations: How It Could Affect Chesapeake Bay Restoration
February 28, 2017
On January 30, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order stating that whenever any federal agency issues a new regulation or policy, it must also eliminate two existing regulations or policies.
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Marylanders Agree: Hands off Our Oyster Sanctuaries
February 24, 2017
With more than six million residents, Maryland is a melting pot of diverse citizens, with different political leanings, religious beliefs, and racial backgrounds.
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The View of an Oyster Sanctuary
February 23, 2017
The fate of Maryland's oyster population is being worked out in a church basement in Annapolis.
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Forest Conservation Law Needs Bolstering
February 22, 2017
Thanks to the controversial Crystal Spring development project, Annapolis residents probably know more than most Marylanders about the state Forest Conservation Act, or FCA. They know that in a battle to save trees, the law can feel about as forceful as a wiffle ball bat.
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2017 Save the Bay Photo Contest Begins Today!
February 21, 2017
Our 2017 Photo Contest is now open to both amateur and professional photographers.
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Conservation Efforts Support Healthier Farms, Cleaner Water
February 17, 2017
Until last year, cattle would wade into streams and ponds to cool off on David Surratt's farm in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Speaking up for Clean Water
February 15, 2017
Just eleven years after Captain John Smith led the original exploration of the Chesapeake Bay, the Western Hemisphere's oldest legislative body was founded when Virginia's House of Burgesses met in 1619.
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Five Important Advocacy Actions You Can Do Right Now
February 14, 2017
The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint is working. By all metrics, we are seeing progress. Citizens, businesses, and governments are rolling up their sleeves to reduce pollution. And it is working.
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Three Examples Show How Ripples Can Become Waves to Save the Bay
February 13, 2017
The saying goes: "It takes a village." To fully implement the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint, governments, businesses, and citizens all must do their part.
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Clean Water Remains a Priority
February 9, 2017
If you talk to longtime residents of Hampton Roads, you will hear stories about how waterways are starting to show signs that they may be on the mend.
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Photo of the Week: Late January Snow Along the Bay
February 6, 2017
Almost every day I walk down to the beach and take pictures of the amazing sunrise.
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Photo of the Week: Winter on the Chesapeake
January 23, 2017
The Bay has always been a part of who I am.
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Infrastructure Innovation
January 19, 2017
Don't Dump: Chesapeake Bay Drainage! When these words started showing up painted on storm drains in the early 1990s, it was easy to visualize the effects of oil and trash rushing directly down drain pipes to Bay tributaries.
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Slowing the Flow: Miles of Streams Renewed in Fairfax County
January 17, 2017
Given that more than one million people call Fairfax County home, there are plenty of homes, roads, and parking lots in this suburban Northern Virginia county.
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