Updated: 12:12 PM The Hampton River will be easier to navigate when a dredging project is completed later this year.

Updated: 5:21 PM A senator upset with the pace at which the Obama administration is approving deep-water oil drilling permits has blocked a pay raise for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Updated: 1:58 PM The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is back in court over bay restoration efforts.

Posted: 1:00 PM The developer of a proposed wind farm in Roanoke County wants federal authorities to raise the flying altitude around four turbines deemed a hazard to airplanes.

Posted: 12:58 PM The executive committee of the Virginia Young Democrats is urging lawmakers to keep a ban on uranium mining in place.

Posted: 12:55 PM Old Dominion Electric Cooperative says a report on its proposed coal-fired plant in Surry County "grossly misrepresents" its potential environmental and public health impact.

Posted: 12:52 PM The town of Marmet has agreed to pay a $56,010 fine for dumping sewage on a hillside for 29 days.

Updated: 12:09 PM A new $619 million power station in Buckingham County has begun commercial operations.

Updated: 3:30 PM Virginia farmers who added tens of thousands of acres of barley won't be left holding the bag now that a $150 million ethanol plant in Hopewell is up for sale.

Posted: 12:18 PM A report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation concludes a $6 billion coal-fired plant in Surry County would create a range of negative health and economic impacts.

Posted: 12:13 PM Virginia regulators have fined the Radford Army Ammunition Plant $20,000 for releasing excessive carbon monoxide.

Updated: 6:26 PM Federal energy regulators approved rates for a proposed $5 billion offshore wind power transmission line that are lower than the developers of the Google-backed venture had sought.

Updated: 2:11 PM It's a Children First Good Neighbor Gift idea to promote agriculture, business and healthy eating for children: a Little Farmers' Market.

Updated: 6:10 PM A federal Environmental Protection Agency official says a new Maryland law limiting lawn fertilizer use will help the state meet its Chesapeake Bay restoration goals.

Updated: 3:46 PM One local college is working hard to get community members thinking about how they can make their lives and the world a little more green.

Posted: 12:24 PM Virginia Beach officials say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will spend $9 million to replenish sand eroded from the city's resort beach.

Posted: 12:01 PM State regulators have ordered a Charleston-based company to postpone natural gas drilling operations in Morgantown until negotiations with the city are concluded.

Posted: 11:42 AM The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is helping to build a frozen repository of living coral cells from the Great Barrier Reef that could restore a species in the future.

Updated: 6:05 PM A bill limiting the use of lawn fertilizers, a growing source of Chesapeake Bay pollution, is to be signed into law this week.

Posted: 6:29 PM A draft management plan for Virginia's George Washington National Forest limits the type of gas and oil drilling that could occur in its 1.1 million acres and opens portions of the forest to the possibility of wind development.

Posted: 5:07 PM The Senate has rejected a GOP bid to speed up and expand offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices.

Updated: 5:07 PM Residents angry over natural gas wells along the Monongahela River and near a drinking water treatment plant say state regulators aren't up to the job of properly overseeing the industry.

Updated: 2:00 PM West Virginia environmental officials say they've so far found no unsafe levels of radioactivity from drilling in the state's Marcellus shale natural gas field.

Posted: 12:06 PM Roanoke County officials have revised a proposed zoning ordinance on wind energy generation.

Posted: 12:01 PM Some environmental groups are opposing an effort by the administration of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell to resurrect plans for a highway that would connect northern Virginia's outer suburbs in Loudoun and Prince William counties.