The Prince George’s County Department of the Environment and the Chesapeake Bay Trust recently announced the recipients of 23 grants for environment-friendly stormwater management and citizen engagement projects. Prince George’s County neighborhood groups, faith-based organizations, non-profit organizations, and schools received … Continued
Keep Norfolk Beautiful (KNB) and its thousands of volunteers recently received national recognition for exemplary performance as it works toward a clean, green, and beautiful community. In qualifying for the President’s Circle Award, KNB met the following standards of merit: … Continued
The health of the Chesapeake Bay increased this year to C-, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) biennial State of the Bay report. Continued implementation of the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint and below average rainfall resulted in improvements in … Continued
The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) recently announced the completion of the Chesapeake Bay High-resolution Land Cover Project. The project is expected to provide improved information about natural and human-made features that exist on the landscape of the Bay watershed, such … Continued
Nearly $2.4 million in environmental education grants will be funded by the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office through the competitive B-WET (Bay-Watershed Education and Training) Chesapeake program this year. B-WET is an environmental education program that supports locally relevant outdoors, experience-based … Continued