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Sarah Vogelsong

Sarah Vogelsong is Virginia Mercury’s environment and energy reporter, covering everything from utility regulation to sea level rise. Originally from McLean, she has spent over a decade in journalism and academic publishing and previously worked as a staff reporter for Chesapeake Bay Journal.

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As the 2025 federal deadline approaches for cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay, pressure on Pennsylvania has been growing.

The frequency of ‘marine heat waves’ in the waters of the Chesapeake is increasing, which could have devastating impacts to the bay ecosystem, scientists warn.

Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) is pledging to use executive action to pull Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon market…

The Chesapeake Bay Program is set to get an extra $2.5 million next year, despite a request by President Trump that its current $85…

Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit in federal district court Thursday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accusing the agency of violating…

Four and a half months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s top Chesapeake Bay official called the goals of the decades-old Chesapeake Bay Program…