Updated: 4:35 PM A new coalition of environmental, labor and religious leaders is seeking a bigger commitment from Virginia's biggest utility to offshore wind development.

Posted: 4:34 PM West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is joining Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate to promote the development and use of alternative energy.

Updated: 12:54 PM Federal regulators are stepping up inspections at a nuclear power plant in Alabama after deciding an equipment failure there was a serious safety issue.

Posted: 11:51 AM A group that controls the electrical grid for a 13-state region says power should keep flowing during this year's peak summer months.

Updated: 5:24 PM West Virginia agriculture officials are asking the Environmental Protection Agency for help in combating the marmorated stinkbug.

Updated: 5:25 PM Most streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are in poor condition or worse.

Updated: 4:21 PM Ground has been broken on a new coal-to-gas plant in Mingo County.

Posted: 12:46 PM State officials are investigating a report of asbestos exposure at Dominion Virginian Power's Surry Power Station.

Updated: 12:41 PM A Roanoke company has agreed to pay a $28,000 fine stemming from a gasoline spill in Bedford County that killed hundreds of fish and other aquatic life.

Posted: 12:38 PM Construction is being halted at a planned nuclear manufacturing plant in Newport News.

Posted: 12:32 PM Another West Virginia local government is cashing in on natural gas drilling.

Posted: 11:58 AM For Liberty and Belle, these are the days of their lives: Liberty disappears for a while, and a new nest-wrecking male moves in.

Updated: 3:19 PM In more than 25 countries on five continents, young people took to the streets Sunday, including some in Harrisonburg, to march for environmental change through the iMatter marches.

Updated: 5:01 PM A bill in the U.S. Senate would expand nutria eradication efforts in Maryland and Louisiana and begin similar programs in other coastal states.

Updated: 2:50 PM You might see them around outside, but bee keeper Bill Theiss says you may not realize what's going on with bees.

Posted: 12:40 PM Honeybees are taking a beating in Virginia, much to the chagrin of farmers.

Posted: 12:07 PM The owner of a northwestern Indiana electric generating plant plans to shut it down at the end of 2012 after more than 55 years of operation.

Updated: 6:55 PM Moundsville's ten-year effort to clean up the site of a former Fostoria Glass factory for new commercial tenants could finish this summer.

Updated: 6:54 PM Laura Bush is headlining an effort to raise hundreds of million dollars from corporations and individual donors to restore the National Mall in Washington.

Posted: 3:03 PM On Thursday night, the City of Staunton was thinking green and showing people that green innovations don't just have to happen around the country.

Posted: 7:10 PM Considering the rising cost of gas, the topic of alternative energy is gaining attention nationwide.

Updated: 5:15 PM West Virginia has approved plans to drill two Marcellus shale gas wells at a Morgantown industrial park.

Posted: 3:01 PM During his visit to a Richmond-area gas station Thursday afternoon, Gov. Bob McDonnell discussed rising gas prices and the need for more domestic energy production, including production of oil and natural gas off of Virginia’s coast.

Updated: 3:20 PM The Republican-controlled House has passed the first of three bills aimed at making it easier for oil companies to drill offshore.

Posted: 11:41 AM Three Galax-area couples have granted conservation easements that will protect more than 1,000 acres along the New River from future development.