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.
A Republican-backed House bill to end Department of Energy loan guarantees probably won't make it any farther on the Hill, but it may offer a rallying point for campaigning conservatives.
A German study suggests individual wind turbines may kill bats from thousands of miles away, which has troubling implications for California species.
A new program launched this week in 14 California counties allows commercial property owners to finance energy upgrades and pay the loan off through their property tax bills.
Donald Trump calls the San Gorgonio Pass windmills "like a sad person's version of Disneyland."
The EPA clears a procedural roadblock for a gas-fired power plant in Palmdale that has some solar attached.
A Tennessee solar company shoots itself in the foot with sexist advertising.
You might imagine a facility of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) going off the grid in the back of beyond. But a USFS facility is now generating all of its own power with solar panels in the middle of the suburban San Gabriel Valley.
If you see a woodpeckery-looking woodpecker in the Mojave, it's probably a ladder-backed.
The National Parks Conservation Association says we should learn from three solar project siting "mistakes" near desert national parks.
California's grid operator expands into southwestern Nevada to serve a planned 500-megawatt solar project.
Republicans gear up to end the war... on coal.
Twentynine Palms' Planning Commission takes a strong stand against commercial solar development in town