Tagged Stories: "Phosphorus"

Scientists link a Clean Water Act permit program to healthier rivers and streams.

Land-based actions are lowering the nutrients and sediment entering the Bay.

Simulations show that jurisdictions are reducing nutrient and sediment pollution.

Excess nutrients are making the sport fish more susceptible to infections and death.

A new treatment plant will improve water quality in the Potomac River.

Legislation prohibiting the sale, use and distribution of lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus will go into effect in 2013.

Nutrient pollution in the majority of the Chesapeake Bay region's freshwater streams and rivers has decreased over the last 25 years.

What do farms, manure, and a developing technology for creating fertilizer have to do with the Chesapeake Bay?

A new report by Environment Maryland details the harmful effects of lawn fertilizer on the Chesapeake Bay.

Virginia is poised to pass a law banning the sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus, a major pollutant in the Chesapeake Bay.