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 program to promote rooftop solar power generation has reached two thirds of its target.
A $5 billion Chinese-backed energy project at the southernmost corner of Nevada failed when its owners couldn't find utilities that wanted to buy its power, either in Nevada or across the line in California.
The fatality marks the first reported death of a federally listed endangered bird at a renewable energy generation site in the mainland U.S.
Is there really enough wind in Ocotillo to justify the area's wind turbines? That's a question some Imperial County residents are asking this week, as Ocotillo Express Wind's operator Pattern Energy slowly brings back online turbines that had been shut...
Mining interests have had nearly unchallenged access to most public lands since 1872, when Congress passed the General Mining Act and sent it to the white house, where Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law.
The story of whitebark pine should not be overlooked.
The Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating System, which would have put two 750-foot-tall power towers on a bluff in view of the Colorado River, had attracted criticism for its effect on fossil resurces and wildlife, as well as the cost of the power it wou...
California Energy Commission staff say they need a lot more information from a builder on a large solar project's impacts to wildlife, archaeology, and other resources before they can sign off on the project.
The company shut its solar thermal division in late June. Now, the head of Siemens' wind division is leaving "by mutual agreement to pursue new career challenges."
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has signed off on a wind power facility that would cover almost 60 square miles of public lands in Arizona near the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Things have been getting worse for the Townsend's big-eared bat in recent decades.
A rare bird that had attracted a number of British birders was struck and killed by wind turbine blades as the onlookers watched in horror.