By Gerald Winegrad Your support is urgently needed for long-overdue major restrictions on the Virginia-based slaughter of tens of millions of individual menhaden a year. Thousands of osprey chicks in higher-salinity waters of bay country are dying slow, horrible deaths from starvation because of corporate greed decimating the ospreys’ major food…

Like Vito Corleone, the Godfather tending his tomato plants, in my supposed retirement, I spend each summer day tending my two crab pots on my Oyster Creek pier. I cherish catching my favorite food and feasting on steamed crabs in Old Bay with Maryland corn on the cob with Carol and others. This is how…

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of declaring our independence from England and its king, there has been a torrent of written and visual reflections on our hallowed Declaration of Independence and its global historical importance. One example is the harsh reality of Native Americans trapped in a lose-lose situation during the Revolutionary War. Tribes…

Last week’s column covered President Donald Trump’s insane blockage of clean and cheap sustainable energy from wind power. Equally appalling is his attack on solar power, energy efficiency and electric vehicles. His policies spur higher energy prices and diminish electrical supplies while promoting greater usage of polluting and costlier coal, oil and natural gas. At an April…

“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” Bob Dylan (1962)     Since taking office again on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to our nation’s conservation efforts, dismantling approved legislation, regulations and funding. Many bedrock initiatives were enacted under Republican presidents and with bipartisan efforts. Some date…

Maryland’s Environment Secretary Serena McIlwain recently posted an op-ed, “What the Chesapeake Bay is trying to tell us.” The secretary left many gaps, omitting what the bay is really telling us. First, the Chesapeake is loudly telling us now and has been for decades that it is not its warming waters that are the major…