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Group Offers to Pay for Landowners to Attend DOE Fracking Meeting
Last Updated: 6:54 PM 06/10/11
 A natural gas group is offering an expenses-paid trip to pro-drilling landowners to get them to attend U.S. Energy Department meeting on the controversial practice known as fracking.

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Coal Industry Bracing for More Cuts and Waning Demand
Last Updated: 5:54 PM 06/10/11
 American Electric Power's plan to shutter a string of aging coal-fired electric plants if regulators adopt strict new pollution rules is likely the first in a string of similar decisions that has the coal industry bracing for waning demand.

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Inquiry: NRC Head Influenced Decisions on Radioactive Waste Dump
Last Updated: 1:14 PM 06/10/11
 An internal inquiry has concluded that the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission strategically withheld and controlled information to steer decisions on a massive dump for radioactive waste his way.

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WV's Congressional Delegation Reacts to Planned Power Plant Shutdowns
Last Updated: 1:49 PM 06/10/11
 West Virginia's congressional delegation is blasting the Environmental Protection Agency over word that three power plants will close.

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NASA Satellite Takes Milestone Photo of Earth's Atmosphere
Last Updated: 6:14 PM 06/09/11
 A NASA satellite has taken its three billionth image of the earth's atmosphere.

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Mapping Deepwater Canyons Off VA, MD Coast
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Last Updated: 6:02 PM 06/09/11 - Federal scientists are using sonar to map deepwater canyons about 100 miles off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland. (Full Story)
Groups Ask to Have Decision on Shell Oil Exploration Plan Thrown Out
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Last Updated: 5:17 PM 06/09/11 - Environmental groups are asking a federal appeals court to throw out a U.S. government decision to approve a Shell oil exploration plan that involves five proposed wells under more than 7,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. (Full Story)
AEP Says Will Have to Close Plants, Make Cutbacks Under New Rules
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Last Updated: 5:06 PM 06/09/11 - American Electric Power Co. Inc. says it will have to shut down five plants and make cutbacks at six others to comply with new rules proposed for coal-fired power plants. (Full Story)
TVA Appeals Violations Against AL Nuclear Plant
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Last Updated: 5:01 PM 06/09/11 - The Tennessee Valley Authority has appealed a serious violation that federal regulators leveled against the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama. (Full Story)
WV County and City at Odds on Drilling
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Last Updated: 12:32 PM 06/09/11 - The Monongalia County Commission is warning Morgantown against trying to ban natural gas drilling beyond its municipal borders. (Full Story)
Volunteers Pick Up Thousands of Pounds of Junk from VA Streams
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Last Updated: 11:39 AM 06/09/11 - Volunteers who pitched in for the annual Clean the Bay Day fished out an interesting array of items, ranging from two live kittens to a toilet seat. (Full Story)
Old WV Trees Helping Study Climate Change Study
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Last Updated: 11:31 AM 06/09/11 - Some of West Virginia's oldest trees are helping scientists collect new data on climate change. (Full Story)
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