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.
Governor Brown signs bills making it easier to build solar on the Central Coast, and mine geothermal brine for valuable minerals.
Southern Californians had better get used to smelling the Salton Sea, because this week's stench will almost certainly return -- unless we restore the Sea.
L.A's veteran Congressional Representative wants hearings on how a warmer world makes it harder to generate electricity.
Renewable energy enthusiasts have been saying for a few years that there's plenty of disturbed and damaged land we could be developing for solar, wind, and other renewables. And now, the EPA is backing them up.
BrightSource relents and submits a plan to survey its Rio Mesa site for fossils.
Some of the energy-related claims in Obama's nomination speech at the DNC check out. Others? Not so much.
Green power advocates say a recent bill is an attack on community-based renewable energy.
The Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and some of California's most conservative farming businesses teamed up to support the state's recent ethanol ban.
Some kinds of energy conservation are far cheaper per watt than new renewables.
The man who oversees the nation's power grid thinks central renewable energy power stations may be on their way out.
Street trees ARE science education.
L.A.'s Department of Water and Power's solar program is growing fast.