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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LA and San Francisco took steps to get off coal, oil, and nuclear power this week.
A possible way to capture waste heat and turn it into electrical power.
Despite the continuing outage of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, one expert says fears of power shortages are exaggerated.
I've warned of the danger of human-created climate change since the early 1970s, so you might expect me to be completely on board with this analysis. I'm not.
Members of the Moapa band have paid a heavy price for the presence of the Reid Gardner Power Station coal plant.
A "spill" from a solar project being built in LA County mayhave caused big problems.
Greenhouse gas allowances acquired as part of California's cap and trade auction program can soon be traded along with those issued in Quebec.
A deal to preserve 7,000 acres of land as mitigation for the Ivanpah solar project? Not everyone's happy with that.
Germany and California set solar records this week, but it hardly seems fair to Germany to mention California's milestone in the same breath.
The state leads the US in solar jobs, and Proposition 39 could create another 21,000 green jobs.
Plaintiffs charge the federal government conducted an inadequate review of the project's likely effects on desert wildlife.
Wind developers wanting to install several hundred turbines may be faced with disappointing power output unless models get a lot better.