Updated: 10:56 AM Washington and Lee University is now getting some of its electricity from a new solar power system.

Posted: 6:52 PM Nearly 60 communities across Virginia are celebrating their Tree City USA certification from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Posted: 10:16 AM Solar power advocates are challenging a residential rate proposal by Dominion Virginia Power that they contend would create disincentives for a renewable energy source that is already lagging in the state.

Updated: 6:10 PM Leaders met at JMU today to train and advise personnel on maintaining the green projects that they may have in place.

Posted: 10:59 AM Commercial operation has begun at a 98-megawatt wind generation facility in Elkins.

Posted: 10:29 AM Gov. Bob McDonnell's second annual conference on energy convenes in Richmond this week, bringing in industry leaders and hundreds of exhibitors.

Posted: 4:40 PM A top state energy official says the federal government is preparing to accept expressions of interest from prospective developers of wind power in Virginia's coastal waters.

Posted: 3:43 PM Dominion Virginia Power is starting a pricing program for residential customers who own or lease plug-in electric vehicles.

Updated: 11:01 AM The Augusta County Sheriff's Office is going green by using propane-fueled patrol cars.

Posted: 5:41 PM President Barack Obama is directing his administration to withdraw a controversial proposed regulation updating government smog standards.

Updated: 6:54 PM 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.

Updated: 5:54 PM 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.

Posted: 1:14 PM 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.

Updated: 1:49 PM West Virginia's congressional delegation is blasting the Environmental Protection Agency over word that three power plants will close.

Updated: 6:02 PM Federal scientists are using sonar to map deepwater canyons about 100 miles off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland.

Updated: 6:14 PM A NASA satellite has taken its three billionth image of the earth's atmosphere.

Posted: 5:17 PM 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.

Updated: 5:06 PM 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.

Posted: 5:01 PM The Tennessee Valley Authority has appealed a serious violation that federal regulators leveled against the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama.

Posted: 12:32 PM The Monongalia County Commission is warning Morgantown against trying to ban natural gas drilling beyond its municipal borders.

Posted: 11:39 AM 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.

Posted: 11:31 AM Some of West Virginia's oldest trees are helping scientists collect new data on climate change.

Updated: 2:03 PM The parent company for Mon Power says a federal lawsuit over arsenic discharges at its Albright power plant in Preston County is without merit.

Updated: 2:08 PM 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.

Posted: 12:25 PM 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.