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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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Residents of Boulevard are starting to feel like their community has been unfairly targeted by renewable energy development
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State Senator Lois Wolk launches another attempt to promote community solar projects.
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The California Energy Commission's staff has assessed the proposed Hidden Hills solar project, and says it will cause irreparable harm to desert wildlife.
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As we get closer to the end of the year, there's still no word on any Congressional action to extend the expiring Wind Production Tax Credit.
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Riverside County has significant concerns over how BrightSource Energy's 500-megawatt solar thermal plant would affect the county's wildlife, historic sites, and public health and welfare.
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A prominent California ratepayer advocacy organization has slammed an agreement between the state's investor-owned utilities and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to conduct studies into new renewable grid management techniques.
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Another industrial solar plant on public lands gets closer to approval in the California Desert.
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The state just came close to a solar output recrd set in August -- and it's the middle of winter.
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L.A. City Council member Jan Perry is calling for DWP to make a solar incentive program more democratic.
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Even exposed as a hoax, the "eagle captures child" video's immediate extreme popularity reminds us of something very real indeed about our place in the natural world.
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Buying a real Christmas tree will help reduce your carbon footprint. Here's why.
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One of the most energy-intensive things we encounter in a typical day is the common aluminum can.
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