Steve Tambini, the recently retired executive director of the DRBC, shares his high-level thoughts about the river basin.

Without a strong, active EPA, efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay are likely to stall, reversing years of slow but steady ...

For more than 40 years, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has been at the heart of efforts to save the Chesapeake Bay. Since 1983 ... The nation’s largest estuary is crucial for ...

The majority of the estuary’s overall gains come from Hillsborough Bay, the waterbody just south of downtown Tampa. A species of long and flat seagrass, called shoal grass, is known to have booms and ...

the Tampa Bay National Estuary Program is one of the most successful programs in achieving an improved and healthy bay. The science provided by the program linked the high nitrogen in bay waters ...

Extensive cuts planned by the Trump administration to the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget and staff will drastically threaten the health and recovery of the Chesapeake Bay and its ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources' annual Fall Oyster Survey shows that oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay are thriving, with strong reproductive success and population growth.

As the weather warms up, thousands of mating ospreys are headed back to the Chesapeake Bay from their winter homes in Central and South America. For the last 10 years, the Baltimore Gas and ...