Posted: 12:39 PM The operator of a Harrison County coal mine has been ordered to halt operations until it cleans up a spill from a sediment pond.

Updated: 2:19 PM Maryland's environmental secretary is calling on the federal government to take a more active role in studying and regulating natural gas drilling.

Posted: 12:31 PM Residents in suburban Texas and rural Pennsylvania are living with the nastiness and rancor erupting in communities nationwide over the volatile issue of hydraulic fracturing, a form of gas drilling.

Posted: 12:26 PM A pair of state groups has launched a registry for chemicals used in extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing.

Posted: 12:22 PM A Huntington official says a wastewater pump station that broke down and sent sewage into the Ohio River is being repaired. But the repairs won't last.

Updated: 6:29 PM The Tennessee Valley Authority stores spent fuel and fuel rods at its plants, just Like other nuclear plant operators, but an industry analyst is questioning the safety of that storage.

Updated: 6:30 PM A Virginia commission has awarded $5 million to Babcock & Wilcox Co. to support development of the company's new class of mini nuclear reactors.

Posted: 5:13 PM Environmental groups from across the state are rallying at the Capitol for lawmakers to safeguard against potential hazards related to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region.

Updated: 12:17 PM Waste Management Inc. has spent more than $7.5 million trying to make the King George County landfill less smelly.

Posted: 4:46 PM Rising demand for corn from ethanol producers is pushing U.S. reserves to the lowest point in 15 years, a trend that could lead to higher grain and food prices this year.

Posted: 4:45 PM The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency will evaluate a Biennial Emergency Preparedness Exercise at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station.

Posted: 3:13 PM U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) have introduced legislation that would bring increased accountability measures and a more collaborative management approach to Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts.

Posted: 1:55 PM Only one-quarter of Americans are confident the U.S. government is prepared to respond to a nuclear emergency similar to the one in Japan.

Posted: 12:18 PM The looming federal government shutdown could reduce the amount of trash that volunteers haul from the Potomac River watershed this weekend.

Posted: 11:58 AM Huntington is discharging sewage into the Ohio River after a wastewater pump station broke down.

Posted: 5:45 PM The Republican-led House has moved to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases in a vote largely negated by Senate action a day earlier to defeat such a repeal.

Posted: 5:38 PM Prodded by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Pennsylvania says it's expanding the scope of water tests for radium and other pollutants from the state's booming natural gas drilling industry.

Posted: 1:22 PM Health officials are offering to help residents in Marshall and Ohio counties who want to have their well water tested before natural gas drilling begins.

Updated: 12:46 PM Senate Democrats have defeated a Republican effort to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling the gases blamed for global warming.

Posted: 12:37 PM Legislators have failed to override Gov. Bob McDonnell's vetoes to bills that would have stiffened fines for environmental penalties.

Posted: 12:20 PM West Virginia University researchers have been awarded a grant for their work in reducing the potential harm of highway projects on the environment.

Updated: 5:45 PM Volunteers are being sought for West Virginia's annual Adopt-A-Highway Statewide Cleanup.

Posted: 6:42 PM It's a prominent part of downtown Harrisonburg and on Saturday, more than 400 people will gather to clean up Blacks Run.

Posted: 3:02 PM Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday the winners of the 2011 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards, which will be presented at the Environment Virginia Symposium in Lexington.

Updated: 1:28 PM West Virginians are paying an average of about 12 cents more per gallon at the pump compared with a week ago.