Martha Shimkin, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office, speaks at the Chesapeake Executive Council meeting in Annapolis on Dec. 10, 2024. Photo by Dave ...

Leaders from five states whose rivers feed into the Chesapeake Bay convened Monday to address the region’s lagging efforts to curb pollution in the nation’s largest estuary. The Chesapeake Bay ...

In December, the Chesapeake Bay Program’s executive council issued a directive for the agreement to be revised by the end of 2025, which could mean new deadlines or goals to replace the ones already ...