Sarah Vogelsong is editor-in-chief of The Virginia Mercury and previously its environment and energy reporter. She has worked for multiple Virginia and regional publications, including Chesapeake Bay Journal, The Progress-Index and The Caroline Progress. Her reporting has won awards from groups such as the Society of Environmental Journalists and Virginia Press Association, and she is an alumna of the Columbia Energy Journalism Initiative and Metcalf Institute Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists.
Eleven members of Virginia’s 13-member congressional delegation are asking the acting inspector general for the federal General Services Administration to launch an investigation into…
This spring has seen increased bickering in Northern Virginia over two little-known aviation regulations called the slot and perimeter rules, which govern operations at…
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…