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• National Briefing | South: Virginia: Watermen License Buyback

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  One-third of Virginia’s watermen have offered to sell their licenses back to the state under a buyback program intended to ease pressure on the Chesapeake Bay crab.
  3 days ago

• ASMFC Atlantic Striped Bass Assessment Update Finds Resource Not Overfished and Overfishing Not Occurring

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 114
  The 2009 Atlantic striped stock assessment update indicates that the resource remains in good condition with female spawning stock biomass (SSB)  percent of the SSB target and 185 percent of the SSB threshold. Estimated fishing mortality rates (F) in 2008 are equal to or less than 0.21 and below the target (0.30) and ...
  5 days ago

• Thursday, November 5, 5:00 pm at Viridian Artists, Inc.

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 155
  Judith Tummino: Sojourn: Paintings from Italy ...: Judith TumminoExhibition Sojourn: Paintings from Italy and the Chesapeake BayDates November 3-28, 2009Reception Thursda...
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• Pocahontas and John Smith

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 443
  Pocahontas and John Smith Sedgeford portrait of Pocahontas and her son, Thomas Rolfe Pocahontas saved John Smith Captain John Smith John Smith of Jamestown From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Captain Sir John Smith (c. January 1580–June 21, 1631) ...
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• Chesapeake Bay — Is Maryland A ‘Political Dead Zone’?

  
  Maryland On My Mind — Authority: 420
  Here’s an environmental book with a feisty message: “Fight for the Bay: Why a Dark Green Environmental Awakening is Needed to Save the Chesapeake Bay,” by Howard R. Ernst, political science professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Ernst also wrote “Chesapeake Bay Blues.”Here’s a high-profile ...
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• Make Your Own, Custom 10-Things List

  
  Go For Change: Abundant, Creative, Green — Authority: 106
  The other day I had a conversation with a client who was rationally trying to decide where to go next in greening her household, which she rightly thinks of as a small business. Having effectively reduced her family’s energy use, she now wants to turn to their diet. She’s weighing all the options, to decide what ...
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• NOAA and Smithsonian Project to Improve Chesapeake and Delaware Bays’ Nearshore Habitat Management

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 114
  NOAA has awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s Environmental Research Center and several partner organizations $946,000 for the first year of an anticipated five-year, $5 million collaborative project to study the degradation of nearshore coastal habitats in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Research will be used by ...
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• Chesapeake Bay retriever from the 1870’s

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 140
  The answer to the question I asked last night is that it this dog was a Chesapeake Bay retriever. The illustration comes from John Henry Walsh’s The Dogs of Great Britain, and Other Countries (p. 121). The dog’s name was Trip.  He was owned by C. H. Tilghman of Easton Maryland.  This particular dog won ...
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• Would you want these kinds of benefits?

  
  CCAN Blog — Authority: 123
  Late last week, after resolving a lawsuit by environmental and public health organizations, EPA officials announced that they have set a deadline for developing standards to limit mercury and other toxins emitted from coal-fired power plants by Nov. 16, 2011. According to the EPA , coal-fired plants in this country ...
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• TSA Viper Training Exercise Held at CBBT

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  On Tuesday morning, dozens of law enforcement agents greeted drivers at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The traffic stop included a driver’s license check as well as explosive and drug sniffing dogs.It is part of the Transportation Security Administration’s Viper Program and the agents aren’t your TSA airport ...
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• A legacy of society’s addiction to coal

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 124
  This is the Jeddo Mine Tunnel, dug a century ago to dewater deep underground mine shafts in the middle anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania. This is the same region of the Keystone State which chambers of commerce and related bidness interests have taken to calling “upstate” Pennsylvania. The Jeddo ...
  2 weeks ago

• Public Meetings on Chesapeake Bay ‘Pollution Diet’ Slated

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 438
  EPA to put Chesapeake Bay on pollution diet. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a series of public meetings to discuss the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) – a strict “pollution diet” to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its network of local rivers, streams and creeks. EPA is ...
  2 weeks ago

• What’s Cleaner: Used Toilet Water or the Chesapeake Bay?

  
  Legum's New Line — Authority: 108
  Yesterday, I went on a cruise of the West and Rhode rivers in Maryland to celebrate the release of Prof. Howard Ernst’s new book, Fight for the Chesapeake Bay . Below is a brief exceprt from a conversation with Howard I recorded on the boat. He reveals how he answered a question you wish didn’t need asking — ...
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• EPA to Issue Strict Rules for U.S. Power Plant Air Toxics

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 414
  Deadline of November 2011 for EPA rules to cut power plant toxic air pollution emissions October 23, 2009  Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to adopt rules reducing toxic air pollution from the nation’s coal- and oil-burning power plants, by November 2011, according to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2009 Maryland Young of the Year Striped Bass Survey Below Average

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 114
  Oct 19, 2009— The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that 2009 Young-of-the-Year Striped Bass Survey was a 7.9 catch per haul this year, slightly below the long term average of 11.7. DNR has used the same techniques for the survey for the past 50 years to show the yearly spawning success for ...
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• Chesapeake Bay Foundation Recognizes Governor O’Malley for Leadership

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 114
  The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) announced its recognition of Governor Martin O’Malley for his leadership on environmental issues. O’Malley was honored at the CBF Board of Trustees meeting at the Willard Hotel.“I am not going to tell you – nor would the Governor say – that the job is done,” said CBF ...
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• Fight for the Bay

  
  Legum's New Line — Authority: 108
  Naval Academy Professor Howard Ernst’s first book, Chesapeake Bay Blues , was a remarkably prescient critique of the politics of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. In the book, written in 2003, Ernst argued that not nearly enough was being done to make meaningful progress cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. Five years ...
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• Bay bailout: Can feds step in to save the Chesapeake?

  
  bthesite.com | blog — Authority: 517
  {Photo illustration by Aubrey Fornwalt, b, and The Baltimore Sun} Like waiting for the Orioles to have a winning season, waiting for real action to clean up the Chesapeake Bay has been an exercise in frustration for many observers. But this year, the Obama administration is rolling out a new approach to cleaning ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Estuary Book “The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action”

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 114
  The Chesapeake Book Company has just published a significant new book by local author and environmental scientist Ned Tillman. The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action is a must read for anyone living in the 6 state region that drains into the Chesapeake Bay. The book illustrates how we [...]
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• Mikulski Announces More Than $15 Million for U.S. Army Corps Eastern Shore Projects, Bay Priorities in Appropriations Bill

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 446
  Mikulski release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 16-Oct-2009 CONTACT: Press Office 202-228-1122 Mikulski Announces More Than $15 Million for U.S. Army Corps Eastern Shore Projects, Bay Priorities in Appropriations Bill WASINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations ...
  3 weeks ago

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