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.
Whether the coal is burned in Utah or Uzbekistan makes little difference to rising sea levels.
Japan expects to install more solar capacity this year than California has in the last 20.
The Palm Springs Unified School District does what Coachella Valley strip mall owners should have done years ago.
The CPUC has likely made some San Diego County residents very happy today.
At least in the Eastern Mojave, this is one of the best bloom years for Joshua trees in living memory.
California's grid operator has approved five new transmission projects it says are crucial to the state's renewable future.
I left New York at 22 and hitchhiked west. I awoke one morning in northern Nevada. The emptiness of the desert landscape completely unnerved me. The landscape seemed unadorned and ugly, and yet I could not tear my eyes off the far hills.
Even a resource as unpredictable as wind power isn't that hard to incorporate into a grid the size of California's.
The city of Los Angeles is phasing out use of coal-fired electrical power in the next 12 years.
Inyo County drops its opposition to the Hidden Hills solar project for $15 million.
The BLM's energy development budget will be increased by 20 percent, with the money going to "streamline" permit applications.
The Committee on Natural Resources opens another front in the war of words with the Obama administration.