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Josh Kurtz

Josh Kurtz

Veteran environmental journalist Josh Kurtz is the founding editor of Maryland Matters, a sibling site of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

A heron is perched on a piling at sunrise on the Chesapeake Bay in Chesapeake Beach.

Latest Bay report card: Middling health but signs of progress

By: - June 8, 2023

'We’re running faster to stay in place with climate change,' a U.S. EPA official said.

A heron is perched on a piling at sunrise on the Chesapeake Bay in Chesapeake Beach.

EPA settles lawsuit with states, enviros over Chesapeake Bay pollution from Pa.

By: - April 20, 2023

'We think this is another important moment in the effort to clean up the Bay,' Chesapeake Bay Foundation President Hillary Harp Falk said.