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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 California Energy Commission has awarded $17,223,593 in grants intended to promote cleaner-fueled vehicles in the state of California.
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The Public Utilities Commission will use proceeds from closing a coal power plant to renewable projects for the Hopi and Navajo.
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Though the incentive program has taken heat, it already has more applicants for its first round than were planned for in the whole program.
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The American West has been organized around numbers, from Lewis and Clark to L.A. Freeways.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union. | Photo: Charles Dharapak/AFP/Getty Images
In his 2013 State Of The Union, President Obama covered new ground on one of the least-sexy facets of the overall issue: energy conservation.
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Fast-charging, high-capacity lithium ion batteries could be available in two or three years.
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The groups charge that the BLM should have examined alternatives that concentrate development on disturbed lands and cities.
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The last time you took a long road trip, did you assume you had enough gas because you checked the gas gauge a couple days ago? That's how California manages its bobcat population: letting the "supply" go uncounted for more than three decades as we bur...
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A new smartphone app allows you to track California's power grid and renewables in real time.
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It was once lauded as the "nation's largest solar project." Now it's blowing dust and invasive grass where once there was thriving desert.
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An initiative would shutter California's two nuclear power plants until the federal government has figured out where to put high-level nuclear waste.
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Proposed wind installation in North Dakota threatens the critically endangered whooping crane, of which fewer than 400 remain in the wild.
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