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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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If it seems to you you've heard the word "milk-vetch" come up in one desert environmental issue after another, you're remembering right.
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A U.S. District Court judge will hear arguments Friday that construction on the Imperial County project should be stopped.
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Developers are eyeing the area just north and east of the Mojave National Preserve.
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That viral battery life video now has an update.
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Owner of the North Sky River wind facility in Kern County, site of an eagle death, offers a comment.
Demonstrators march to the Forward on Climate rally to call on President Obama to take strong action on the climate crisis on February 17, 2013 in L.A. | Photo by David McNew/Getty Images
The more we ignore climate change the greater the costs will be, says the Government Accounting Office. Its numbers add up.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) may eliminate most public oversight of wind turbine impacts on eagles.
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The North Sky River Wind project, which attracted fierce opposition, was the site of a golden eagle death in January.
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A video describes a high capacity "battery" made in an almost absurdly simple process which can be safely composted at the end of its useful life.
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Solar manufacturers in California produced over 46 million pounds of hazardous waste between 2007 and 2011.
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Those who want to keep solar plants off prime farmland get more respect than their counterparts in the desert. Why is that?
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Habitat for the Mojave fringe-toed lizard will loom large in a decision to approve BrightSource's Palen solar project.
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