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.
Three quarters of Californians installing rooftop solar aren't paying now to do so -- but will they pay later?
Admitting the possibility of climate change is enough to get you drummed out of the GOP these days, but Reagan's former Secretary of State George Shultz is taking it a lot further.
U.S. customers are lining up to buy a hot renewable technology toy that had previously been available only to struggling entrepreneurs in Uganda.
One of green energy's strongest allies in Sacramento says that old-school utilities are gearing up to fight renewables.
The California Energy Commission ponies up more than $1 million to aid research into climate forecasting and renewable energy technologies.
California's 30th-largest city leads the state in solar... but it had better watch its back.
After pouring $5 million into the planning process, Shell drops plans for a Humboldt County wind project.
China's decision to stop exporting strategic minerals may boost reopening of a California Desert mine
California has broken one solar power production record after another this month, and we don't even really know by how much.
As the Presidential election campaign heats up, backers of Republican Mitt Romney are working to counter criticisms of their candidate's ties to Bain Capital and its alleged outsourcing of American jobs.
If there's a defining characteristic of deserts, it's that they're uncomfortable. That's not L.A.
The fight over renewable electrical power policy is spreading to the issue of renewable fuels for transportation as well.