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.
Southern California Edison found what might be -- and might not be -- evidence of tampering at the San Onofre Nuclear Power station.
The prospects for new solar in Imperial County just got a bit brighter.
It looks like the large rainstorm now bearing down on Southern California may skip the desert, or at least most of the desert.
BrightSource Energy, developer of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System now under construction in the California desert, wants to change how it mitigates its project effects on the federally threatened desert tortoise
As the federal Wind Production Tax Credit comes ever closer to expiring, an environmental group has released a report detailing what it calls the major environmental benefits of wind development in danger of being lost.
As more and more property owners choose to generate power with their own solar and wind facilities, large utilities are seeing a loss in income.
Here's a Mojave Desert living pro-tip: don't leave your jackalope on the porch in November. If you do, the antelope squirrels will strip off its fur to line their nests.
A study by a renowned alternative energy thinktank holds that California could replace San Onofre by conserving energy and increasing rooftop solar.
California's power grid operator tries to crack down on a deceptively simple way of gaming the market.
Water companies are an untapped source for potential power generation, and a startup is working with a Palos Verdes area water company to put some of that power to good use.
Some law enforcement officials are suggesting California pot growers are behind a string of Napa Valley solar panel thefts.
Two important articles on desert solar power projects graced the pages of major Southern California newspapers this weekend.