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 judge refuses to stop a Tehachapi wind project that may pose harm to California condors.
California's desert renewable energy team gives you the chance to comment on hundreds of pages of documents. You've got five days.
Could California's renewable energy future depend on rust?
An easy-to-use federal database offers a wealth of info on photovoltaics in the U.S. and guess what? California's way out in front.
First Solar announces it will build an Imperial County solar plant. Is the company shifting focus from selling solar panels to selling solar installations?
A new report calls the California governor's plan for 12 gigawatts of distributed generation by 2020 feasible and affordable.
Environmentalist response to the Obama administration's public lands solar plan has been, like the proposed Solar Energy Zones, all over the map.
BrightSource has been dragging its heels on providing fossil data, and the California Energy Commission is fed up.
An Orange County water district votes to approve importing water from the Mojave, thus claiming a minor place in a 150-year history of desert exploitation.
California's three largest utilities have reached an important renewable energy target.
The outlook for the state's hydroelectric power plants in a warming world isn't rosy.
It's taken a while, but the message is starting to sink in among western states: California's not buying your renewable energy.