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.
Gina McCarthy, the incoming Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), delivered a video address to EPA staff Monday that leaves no doubt addressing climate change will be a priority on her watch.
Observers of nature are supposed to be dispassionate, to try to refrain from getting attached to individual animals.
ReWire started reporting on renewable energy in California a year ago this month, and the reaction since has been mainly quite gratifyingly favorable. Still, at the end of a week in which we've asked some very pointed questions about solar facilities i...
The U.S. Senate voted today to confirm Regina "Gina" McCarthy as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The long-delayed confirmation had been a bargaining chip in a partisan battle over the Obama administration's energy policy.
Since publishing our story on water bird deaths at desert solar facilities we've learned that the toll is greater than we reported: two great blue herons have been found dead at one of the projects.
A ReWire investigation has revealed that since mid-March, two large industrial solar power plants in Riverside County's remote, arid desert may have killed or injured more than 20 birds commonly associated with lakes or wetlands rather than the open de...
The U.S. Military has taken the lead in getting the nation off fossil fuels and onto renewable energy in a series of well-thought-out programs over the past few years. This isn't one of them.
An effort by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) to promote customer installations of chargers for electric cars was so successful that the utility is expanding it. DWP will be offering rebates up to $750 for residents and businesses in...
A giant energy project that would turn an abandoned open pit mine near Joshua Tree National Park into two hydroelectric storage reservoirs got a thumbs-up from the state's main water quality agency this week.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert suffered a setback in mid-May when a rupture was found in a tube intended to heat steam for use generating power at one of its units. That rupture followed close on the heels of three "i...
The looming war between old-school utilities and rooftop solar seems to be developing a battlefront in Arizona, and "California billionaires" are the new villains.
A study published Thursday in the journal Science has linked geothermal energy production in the Salton Sea area with an increase in local earthquakes.