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.
Northern California's largest utility may have to pay a total of $2.25 billion in penalties over a deadly September 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.
A new startup has big plans to connect solar installers with rooftop owners using a resource that's almost as inexhaustible as the sun: cheap student labor.
Having your ability to breathe deemed less important than the right of urbanites to keep and bear obsolete green lawns does something to your self-esteem.
Almost all of California's new power capacity coming online in the second half of 2013 will be solar, according to the California Independent System Operator.
It's a fairly rare event for a bat to contract rabies, and the rate of transmission of rabies from bats to humans is low: about 10 cases in North America since the 1970s.
California's grid operator says SoCal should have enough power without San Onofre, but we've all got to be ready to conserve.
Hayes oversaw fast-tracking of wind and solar energy developments on public lands.
A Los Angeles-based company that builds charging stations for electric cars has been sold.
A "solar window outlet" making the rounds of social media would need to violate a few laws of physics to deliver as promised.
The shut down could happen if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission doesn't approve a plan to restart part of the plant this summer.
The khaki West Mojave bore a color I hadn't seen there before: a bright sparse orange scattered across the desert, almost as if someone had planted a few hundred thousand California poppies out among the paper bag bush and creosote.
The respiratory infection spread by soil fungi has been diagnosed in 28 workers at two solar project construction sites.