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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 BLM's energy development budget will be increased by 20 percent, with the money going to "streamline" permit applications.
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The Committee on Natural Resources opens another front in the war of words with the Obama administration.
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California remains the nation's geothermal leader with over 2,700 megawatts of capacity installed.
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We've been breaking one California solar record after another, but those numbers don't tell the whole story.
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A new report says that far from hindering green development, CEQA may have actually promoted such development.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has asked the public for help in gathering information on eagle mortality at wind turbines.
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The Interior Department has approved two solar projects in the California desert and a wind project near the Mojave Preserve.
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Desert kit foxes are in trouble, facing threats from industrial development of their habitat to a deadly outbreak of distemper that's killing untold numbers of foxes.
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A Laguna Beach-based marine life rescue group has seen such an increase in the number of severely dehydrated and malnourished sea lion pups this season that the organization is calling it an epidemic.
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Power from the Wild Rose Geothermal Facility near Gabbs, NV will start flowing toward L.A.'s grid in January 2014.
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A San Francisco-based firm says we can store power with technology we've used since the Stone Age: the flywheel.
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At 10:00 am Sunday, the state's grid had 1,500 megawatts of solar power entering the grid for the first time ever.
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