Posted: 11:47 AM Coal company Alpha Natural Resources Inc. is donating $300,000 for energy and environmental sciences research at West Virginia University.

Posted: 11:43 AM Count the city of Morgantown among those asking acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to reconvene the Legislature and toughen regulations for natural gas drilling.

Updated: 1:31 PM Government services contractor ICF International has been awarded a five-year, $10 million contract to support the U.S. Agency for International Development's energy efficiency program.

Updated: 5:38 PM The Tennessee Valley Authority has drafted a natural resources plan to help guide management and use of public land for the next two decades.

Updated: 5:28 PM A new exhibit at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center shows visitors how NASA is studying climate change factors through research on phytoplankton.

Posted: 10:35 AM A Virginia congressman wants the state's offshore waters opened to oil and gas exploration.

Posted: 4:02 PM A Virginia congressmen's bid to ban the use of federal dollars to implement the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay is the focus of a protest letter signed by more than 60 scientists, former governors and state officials.

Updated: 3:22 PM Two environmental groups that pressure banks to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mines say Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo have the strongest lending policies.

Updated: 3:38 PM For the first time, Japan is setting a standard for the amount of radiation allowed in fish.

Updated: 5:43 PM With four new agreements in place, Jefferson County has now permanently protected more than 2,500 acres of farmland from development.

Updated: 5:45 PM It'll take about two days for workers at a Japanese nuclear power plant to pump more than three million gallons of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: 7:10 AM Organizations, like the Shenandoah Valley Network, stepped up Monday and signed a petition on hydrofracking.

Updated: 2:08 PM Virginia Secretary of Education Gerard Robinson and Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech have joined with PepsiCo and Waste Management to encourage K-12 schools in the Commonwealth to participate in the Dream Machine Recycle Rally program in celebration of Earth Week.

Posted: 12:29 PM The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is calling for a comprehensive federal analysis of Marcellus Shale drilling in the six bay watershed states.

Posted: 11:40 AM Hundreds of environmental leaders are heading to Lexington this week for the 22nd annual Environment Virginia Symposium.

Posted: 11:34 AM The days of disposing of trash for free may be ending for Suffolk.

Posted: 3:03 PM The Chesapeake Bay Area water quality has been a major issue for local farmers.

Updated: 5:37 PM Montpelier, President James Madison's country home, plans to hold its spring Big Woods Walk next weekend at the Orange County estate.

Updated: 5:28 PM Mercer County's portion of the Hatfield-McCoy Trails system has been named in honor of Pocahontas Land Corporation.

Posted: 11:56 AM The House has passed a bill that could make it easier to use pesticides near water.

Posted: 11:54 AM Dominion Virginia Power says it's planning to convert three of its coal-fired power plants to renewable biomass.

Posted: 11:52 AM A national coal lobby group is renewing its call for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change its approach to protecting streams from mining operations in mountainous Central Appalachia.

Posted: 11:42 AM A southern West Virginia trout stream is making a comeback after years of coal mining.

Updated: 5:48 PM Dominion Virginia Power is studying the possibility of an offshore electric transmission line to support wind farm development.

Updated: 5:38 PM The failure of a reactor coolant valve at the Tennessee Valley Authority's nuclear plant in North Alabama has raised questions about an apparent violation of Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements.