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.

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.

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.

West Virginia's congressional delegation is blasting the Environmental Protection Agency over word that three power plants will close.

Federal scientists are using sonar to map deepwater canyons about 100 miles off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland.

A NASA satellite has taken its three billionth image of the earth's atmosphere.

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.

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.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has appealed a serious violation that federal regulators leveled against the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama.

The Monongalia County Commission is warning Morgantown against trying to ban natural gas drilling beyond its municipal borders.

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.

Some of West Virginia's oldest trees are helping scientists collect new data on climate change.

The parent company for Mon Power says a federal lawsuit over arsenic discharges at its Albright power plant in Preston County is without merit.

Virginia's largest electric utility is asking state regulators to approve a pilot program that would provide a break to electric car owners who charge up their vehicles during off-peak hours.

The West Virginia Surface Mine Board has addressed several issues raised in an appeal of a permit for a 100-acre shale quarry in Gerrardstown.

Morgantown wants state regulators to halt Marcellus shale drilling within a mile of the city's water supply.

Farmers, ranchers and private, non-industrial forest landowners in Virginia can tap into federal funds to implement conservation practices.

Oysters and crabs are on the agenda for researchers meeting this week to discuss sustainable fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay.

Two environmental groups are threatening to sue FirstEnergy over alleged Clean Water Act violations from a coal-ash dump site at the Albright Power Station in Preston County.

The federal government will provide $467,000 to help clean up abandoned industrial properties in West Virginia communities.

Texas has filed the opening brief in a legal challenge it and eight other states are making to the Environmental Protection Agency's "tailpipe rule."

A year after the Gulf oil spill, House lawmakers are engaging in partisan debate over the Obama administration's response to one of the nation's worst environmental and economic disasters.

State environmental regulators are investigating a fish kill in a creek in Franklin County.

The Obama administration has extended for another year a rule that blocks most logging and mining in millions of acres of remote sections of national forests.

A wet spring has helped reduce the number of forest fires in West Virginia.