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.
Authors of a massive plan to regulate renewable energy in the California Desert seem to ignore the fact that the EPA has already put them out of date.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the California Energy Commission needs to provide more data on potential risks to wildlife, especially migratory birds, from the proposed Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating Station.
If you're going to put strings of lights on your tree, and elsewhere in your house, the new generation of LED decorative lights is a much more energy efficient way of adding holiday sparkle to your surroundings. And they're safer to boot.
Residents of Boulevard are starting to feel like their community has been unfairly targeted by renewable energy development
State Senator Lois Wolk launches another attempt to promote community solar projects.
The California Energy Commission's staff has assessed the proposed Hidden Hills solar project, and says it will cause irreparable harm to desert wildlife.
2012 was a year of change for the California Desert, as human society elsewhere increasingly closed its grip on the desert as a place to sacrifice for our comfort. But in a couple of ways, the desert struck back.
As we get closer to the end of the year, there's still no word on any Congressional action to extend the expiring Wind Production Tax Credit.
Riverside County has significant concerns over how BrightSource Energy's 500-megawatt solar thermal plant would affect the county's wildlife, historic sites, and public health and welfare.
A prominent California ratepayer advocacy organization has slammed an agreement between the state's investor-owned utilities and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to conduct studies into new renewable grid management techniques.
Another industrial solar plant on public lands gets closer to approval in the California Desert.
The state just came close to a solar output recrd set in August -- and it's the middle of winter.