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.
From the Joshua trees and saguaros to the raggedy chollas, there are a lot of odd-looking plants in the desert. You'll have to get out of your car and look around to really get to know one of the oddest.
Tesla Motors announces that it will triple its available public charging stations by the end of June, with a coast-to-coast network in place by the end of the year.
The paper this week covered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to allow a wind facility to kill a condor, and among other problems the story contained a howler of a misstatement about wind development in the Mojave.
A week after construction at the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 1 had resumed, a major dust storm downwind of the construction site forced the closure of the Antelope Valley Freeway and injured at least six people.
It looks like Senator Barbara Boxer's shot at Southern California Edison over San Onofre may have missed the mark.
Between May 23 and 26, California broke three records for renewable energy feeding into the grid: two for solar, and one for wind.
Senator Barbara Boxer has asked the Justice Department to look into whether plant operator Southern California Edison deliberately misled regulators as the utility replaced aging steam generators at the plant's two remaining units.
The Bureau of Land Management has given the thumbs-up to a Kern County wind project that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says is likely to kill at least one California condor.
Shortly after a blade came loose at the Ocotillo Express Wind facility in Imperial County earlier this month, facility operator Pattern Energy deftly handed the matter off to turbine builder Siemens Energy. With a muted press statement issued Friday, i...
The city of Yucca Valley has high hopes that it will be able to make itself indistinguishable from any other uninteresting cluster of stripmalls in the state.
In a bit of long-awaited good news for Joshua Tree National Park and its wild residents, the agency responsible for disposing of L.A. County's trash has abandoned the idea of using the closed Eagle Mountain Mine as a landfill.
Representatives say the Southern California utility should be able to meet demand for power even without the San Onofre nuclear power plant, as long as Fortune throws a few breaks its way -- and with the help of its customers.