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.
The state's public health agency has proposed a maximum safe level of the drinking water contaminant made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich, and if they're enacted, some drinking water providers in the desert are going to have to work to clean up the...
Heading to Leo Carrillo State Beach to catch a few waves? Now your electric car can do the same. Electric vehicles parked at Leo Carrillo, and at Malibu Creek State Park farther uphill, can catch some alternating current electrical wave action from new...
If a recent cease and desist letter that Southern California Edison (SCE) sent to rooftop solar activists was intended to make them go away, it seems to be having the opposite effect. Which could be a metaphor for utilities and rooftop solar itself, wh...
The Lawrence Livermore Lab says 61 percent of the energy generated in the United States is ultimately wasted.
And some climate activists are saying this isn't necessarily bad news. We explain the math using items you can find in your kitchen.
The upscale Sacramento suburb of Roseville will buy electrical power from a solar facility more than 260 miles south of the city, in a Kern County town more readily known for oil wells than solar fields.
"Mother of God, what for the sake of all that's holy is that?"
There are dangerous places in the California desert. You don't want to get within striking range of a Mojave green. When there's a thunderstorm you don't want to be in a slot canyon. And you definitely don't want to get in between Assemblyman Tim Donne...
A satirical video intended to poke fun at alleged utility obstruction of rooftop solar in California has attracted the ire of Southern California Edison.
Manzanar was the site of a shameful chapter in California's history, where thousands of Japanese Americans were imprisoned on account of their ethnicity. Now a utility wants to cover up that history with solar panels.
Duke Energy Renewables has owned a 21-megawatt solar facility in the California desert since April. This week, the company announced it's added another California solar facility to its portfolio. But this one isn't in the desert: it's in one of the fog...
Homeowners who have a little bit of extra cash when they install solar panels are often encouraged to add battery storage to their home system. But a Southern California utility just delivered some upsetting news to owners of those storage systems.