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.
More than 1,000 megawatts of electrical power is coming into the state's transmission grid from solar sources today.
DWP is filling up its pilot program to buy power from its customers.
California led the nation in new wind turbine installations in 2011, according to the Department of Energy.
A set of reports by UCLA's Luskin Center tackle how we can make it easier to charge electric cars in Los Angeles.
There's good and less-good solar news in California today.
Natural gas may be a stepping stone to a renewable future, but that doesn't make it renewable on its own.
Visitor access to the popular Keys View Road was restored this morning when the road reopened.
2.6 billion of us lack access to sanitary facilities, and contamination of drinking water is one of the world's leading causes of infant death. But Caltech engineers may have a partial solution to the problem, and the whole thing runs on solar power.
The Ninth Circuit says BrightSource can keep building the Ivanpah Solar project for the time being.
A new interactive map charts vulnerability to climate change in the state, and the results are bad news for Los Angeles, the Low Desert, and the San Joaquin Valley.
The California Energy Commission has released photos and reports on the July flooding at Genesis Solar.
The future of renewable energy might just be encapsulated in the old saying "Small is Beautiful."