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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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Imperial County Sheriffs have arrested a construction manager for the project after he allegedly threatened a project opponent.
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A painful step on a cactus leads writer Chris Clarke down the path of explaining the fearsome plant family's range of weapons.
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Fox News and The Onion each offer solar stories. One's so inaccurate it could only have been satire. And the other was by The Onion.
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A new initiative would replace SCE, PG&E, and SDG&E with the publicly owned "California Electrical Utility District."
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Boxer has charged that SCE was aware of serious problems with a critical part being installed at San Onofre.
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The Hidden Hills Solar Electric Generating System would destroy half the known California occurrences of the plant.
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An unprecedented coalition of Native people and other environmental activists fought the State of California to a standstill 15 years ago on a proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in Ward Valley.
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It looks as though California has broken another solar power record, in one of the least-sunny times of year possible.
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The CCC built up the nation and the body politic -- can ObamaCorps do the same thing?
REI Chief Executive Officer Sally Jewell delivers remarks after being nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Secretary of the Interior in the State. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Sally Jewell is a bit of a dark horse, with far more of a track record in managing businesses than in setting policy.
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Solar power will likely outstrip wind in the pace of new installations in 2013 in the United States.
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The process of deciding whether to restart the disabled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station continues.
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