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.
Chris Clarke on neighborhood wildlife in Joshua Tree and scientists' attachment to the animals they study.
After one of its wind turbines threw a ten-ton blade in Imperial County, Siemens Energy has shut down all its turbines worldwide that use the same blade.
As of this week, California has at least 150,428 rooftops generating electricity, and probably a lot more than that.
"Fracking has been done safely for decades," said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. "There is no doubt that this essential tool will be used for decades to come."
The 315-megawatt Ocotillo Express Wind project in Imperial County is shut down today after a 10-ton blade came loose from one of the project's 112 Siemens wind turbines, landing about 100 yards away on a public road.
There are a lot of wild claims about renewable energy these days. How do we sort the truly promising from the empty promises?
In a reversal that has outraged environmentalists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it will not penalize a Southern California wind operator if its turbines kill or injure one California condor.
Though condors are threatened by many factors, the greatest long-term threat would seem to be a lack of large dead mammals for the scavenging birds to eat safely. I have a way we might fix that.
We've got a conservative Southern California city and a liberal Northern California city both now mandating rooftop solar on new construction. Who's next?
The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a record high Thursday, attaining a level the planet hasn't experienced for the last three million years, according to scientists.
A Burlingame-based startup is one of five companies awarded contracts with the U.S. Army to develop geothermal generating capacity to power military bases.
You'd think California's investor-owned utilities would be all for net metering: it provides them with a considerable amount of solar energy essentially for free, and keeps them from having to sink money into upgrading transmission. But they're fightin...