By Rex Springston and Kathy Still, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Mar. 21--The state Air Pollution Control Board voted 3-2 yesterday to oversee the permit process for a proposed coal-burning power plant in Southwest Virginia.

By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Jan. 5--Stripping power from two environmental boards would help Virginia businesses but at the cost of making government less accessible to the public.

By REX SPRINGSTON; REX BOWMAN A state environmental panel asked Dominion Virginia Power yesterday to come up with a less-polluting version of a proposed $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant the company wants to build in Wise County.

By Rex Springston and Rex Bowman, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Dec. 1--A state environmental panel asked Dominion Virginia Power yesterday to come up with a less-polluting version of a proposed $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant the company wants to build in Wise County.

By REX SPRINGSTON Environmentalists won a tentative victory yesterday when a House panel decided that a proposal to strip powers from citizen boards needs more study. The natural resources committee voted 17-5 to endorse the bill but with a provision that it must come back for approval in 2008.