Items Tagged with 'Chesapeake Bay'

EPA’s top water regulator, Radhika Fox, is stepping down after nearly three years in the job where she helped lead the latest effort to rewrite the “waters of the U.S.” rule.

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to increase oversight of animal feeding operations in Pennsylvania, including potentially designating them as point sources that would require discharge permits under the Clean Water Act.

States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed must continue to focus on reducing agriculture’s impact on the estuary, a major environmental group said Thursday in its latest update on the bay’s health.