The funds will help improve water quality and cut costs for customers, officials say.

The three states blame Pennsylvania and New York for not doing enough to keep pollution out of the bay, and say the EPA should hold them accountable.

Attorneys general from the three jurisdictions say the EPA is not enforcing the bay cleanup agreement.

The 14-mile long, 30 by 60 feet wide sheen of unidentified pollutant continues to puzzle local and federal authorities as it inches closer to the District.

The fecal bacteria concentrations exceed standards as often as 42 percent of the time.

Today at Capitol South and Union Station.

Good morning, Washington. Grab the galoshes. The D.C. region, which has been suffering from moderate drought, is locked in for more rain today. Heavy downpours are expected, and the National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for most of the metro region. Maryland’s tax-free week starts today, so if you don’t find the rain too dissuasive be careful on the roads.

Photo by K’s Clicks 10 D.C. metropolitan area communities making up parts of the Anacostia River watershed have earned grants from the EPA to promote the use of green infrastructure. The EPA announced the new initiative Friday, along with nine other cities around the U.S., in an effort to reduce the amount of water runoff from entering local waterways, as well as touting the program’s benefits to local economies and neighborhood revitalization. The announcement…

Photo by jim_darling We can’t trip over a Facebook status message without being reminded that today is Earth Day. Local food blogs The Arugula Files and FoodieTots are using the occasion to promote Blog for the Bay day, an effort to get local bloggers to link to a Chesapeake Bay Foundation petition urging the EPA to take action to meet a goal of cleaning up the bay by 2010. They also suggest posting a…