Beneath the waters made murky by recent heavy rains, archaeologists are uncovering remnants of the dramatic events preceding the bloody four-hour Battle of Bladensburg during the War of 1812. Archaeologists from the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), the US Navy (USN) and Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) are surveying for a War of 1812 shipwreck in…

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler visited the Patuxent River on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, as part of his ongoing audit of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Since beginning his statewide tour and audit of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in April 2008, the Attorney General has visited ten Maryland rivers. Attorney General Gansler…

Patuxent Riverkeeper has received reports lately of two unrelated individuals who became sick at different times in the past week after coming into contact with some bacteriological agent that appears to be in the Patuxent river near Broome’s Island. Initial reports from individuals (who have insisted on keeping their identities from public disclosure) suggested a…

The latest edition of the Patuxent fact sheet contains handy stats, facts and figures about the State’s longest and deepest instrastate waterway. Compiled and produced by local biologist Nick Carter for the participants in the 2009 Patuxent Sojourn you can download a copy of it here: Nick Carter

Several people have contacted us to inquire about how to rank or score the track record of legislators who supported the recent weakening of the stormwater rules through a "compromise" in the MD General Assembly. Using the term "compromise" as a euphemism for weakening of the regulation is a variety of "spin" that should be…

May 6, 2010. Today, just over 10- years to the day from the April 7, 2000 oil spill from the Chalk Point plant, I visited Swanson Creek near Benedict, MD and motored over "ground zero" of the power company pipeline that leaked some 11,000 gallons of fuel oil into the waters that were once rich…

Patuxent Riverkeeper along with other coalition partners worked very hard in the General Assembly to defend the State Stormwater Regulations from an assault by the builder lobby. The business interests initially sought more explicit grandfathering for projects in the development pipeline as the May 4th deadline for implementing the new laws approached. Arguably this was…

The Patuxent 20/20 Report is an intensely researched strategic plan that reviewed publicly available documents, researched studies and consolidated the findings into a visionary implementation plan to protect the Patuxent and bring it back to health. Download it here: Patuxent 2020 Plan

Here is a complete downloadable list of Patuxent Riverkeeper newsletters: First Newsletter September 2005 Newsletter November 2005 Newsletter December 2005 Newsletter March 2006 June 2006 July/August November/December January/February 2007 Fall 2007 Summer 2007 Winter 2008 Summer 2009 February 2010

38 BAY LEADERS CALL FOR RADICAL NEW ACTIONS TO RESTORE THE BAY FOR RELEASE: 12:00 noon, December 30, 2009 A consortium of senior Chesapeake Bay scientists, policy makers, and Bay advocates meeting in Annapolis called for an end to the politics of postponement and urged the Obama Administration and the Bay states to adopt 24…