Court Decision Supports Maryland’s Removal of Pollution Protections

Court Decision Supports Maryland’s Removal of Pollution Protections

Several Local Impaired Waterways Reclassified Without Any Scientific Support In 2016, Waterkeepers Chesapeake and several Riverkeepers filed a lawsuit against ...
Statement on Maryland Department of the Environment and Exelon's Proposed Conowingo Settlement

Statement on Maryland Department of the Environment and Exelon’s Proposed Conowingo Settlement

(Takoma Park, MD) – Waterkeepers Chesapeake Executive Director Betsy Nicholas and Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ted Evgeniadis released the following statements ...
Final Cleanup Plans for Pennsylvania and Maryland Fall Short

Final Cleanup Plans for Pennsylvania and Maryland Fall Short

Image credit: NASA/USGS/Landsat 5 By Katlyn Schmitt, WKC Staff Attorney In late August, the six states in the Chesapeake Bay ...
Op Ed: Maryland’s Bay Clean Up Plan Lags Behind 

Op Ed: Maryland’s Bay Clean Up Plan Lags Behind 

By Katlyn Schmitt of Waterkeepers Chesapeake and Ben Alexandro of Maryland League of Conservation Voters Printed in Maryland Matters, September ...
A Look Ahead to Our 2025 Clean Water Goals for the Chesapeake Bay

A Look Ahead to Our 2025 Clean Water Goals for the Chesapeake Bay

By Katlyn Schmitt, Staff Attorney Earlier this spring, Chesapeake Bay states released their final phase of draft plans to restore ...
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