Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
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Richmond-based Alion Energy is proposing to automate both construction and maintenance of large solar facilities, using robots instead of skilled workers to put solar panels in place and keep them clean.
Today we're launching ReWild, a blog that will report on wildlife issues in California.
A bill signed Friday by Governor Jerry Brown will make it illegal to use lead ammunition for hunting.
A year-long campaign to place serious restrictions on trapping wild bobcats in California has hit a milestone.
A solar thermal power plant in the Arizona desert just showed that solar power doesn't have to stop working when the sun goes down. On Wednesday, Abengoa Solar announced that its 280-megawatt Solana plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, which just started del...
A controversial trail closure in the Coachella Valley may not bring anyone any closure after all.
If you've spent time at night in the Kern County portion of the California Desert in the last few years, you've seen them: that ever-multiplying galaxy of bright red warning beacons atop wind turbines.
The ongoing shutdown of the Federal government has thrown a monkey wrench into public review of a large solar power plant proposed for the California desert, and there's no way to find out how the federal government plans to address the issue.
A media investigation has revealed that federal regulators quietly approved at least four fracking projects off the Santa Barbara coast without environmental review, prompting a national environmental group is calling for an immediate end to the practice.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has, in effect, refused to enforce several wildlife protection laws against renewable energy companies, even as those companies' threats to wildlife have mounted.
More than 60 dead birds were found in August at the Genesis Solar Project west of Blythe in Riverside County. The bird species found range from an American kestrel to sparrows and doves, with a surprising number of brown-headed cowbirds among the casua...
Governor Jerry Brown signed a controversial bill Monday that would change how the state regulates rooftop solar owners' agreements with utilities, but he encouraged the state agency responsible for crafting the new rules to protect the interests of cur...