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KCET's award-winning environment news project Redefine ran from July 2012 through February 2017. For ongoing environmental coverage please visit our show Earth Focus, or browse Redefine's archives below for historical material.

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The CEO of the largest power company in the U.S. calls rooftop solar a "mortal threat" to utilities, and says that's not a bad thing.
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Both BrightSource and the California Energy Commission agree the proposed Hidden Hills project will harm birds. But how much?
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If FWS really wanted to get "aggressive" in enforcing the provisions of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act that protect eagles, it would send a message not by way of a press release, but by way of the local U.S. Attorney.
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Whether the coal is burned in Utah or Uzbekistan makes little difference to rising sea levels.
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Japan expects to install more solar capacity this year than California has in the last 20.
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The Palm Springs Unified School District does what Coachella Valley strip mall owners should have done years ago.
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The CPUC has likely made some San Diego County residents very happy today.
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California's grid operator has approved five new transmission projects it says are crucial to the state's renewable future.
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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.
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Even a resource as unpredictable as wind power isn't that hard to incorporate into a grid the size of California's.
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The city of Los Angeles is phasing out use of coal-fired electrical power in the next 12 years.
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Inyo County drops its opposition to the Hidden Hills solar project for $15 million.
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