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.
House Resolution 762 exhorts communities to develop distributed generation -- and it was written by a Tea Party Republican.
A wildfire in Joshua Tree National Park has prompted the closure of a main park road as firefighting crews work to contain the 270-acre blaze.
Beneath the surface of the desert lies an ecosystem as intricate and diverse as a coral reef.
Democrats seem to be getting fed up with debating climate change denialists.
When Pattern Energy heard a protest was scheduled for their Ocotillo Express Wind construction site last weekend, they packed up and left for the day.
Could we cap our state's hundreds of miles of canals with solar panels?
The Governor's office does its bit to cut down on rooftop solar red tape.
You can now charge your electric car in half an hour in Downtown L.A., but you may want to make a reservation.
Faced with spiking demand, California's grid operators ask Californians to save energy this weekend.
The amount of one particular class of smog-forming chemicals in Los Angeles' air has dropped by a surprising amount.
San Diego County Supervisors give a partial thumbs-up to two more wind projects.
There's too much tortoise habitat in the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone to avoid, says the federal government.