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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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As the federal Wind Production Tax Credit comes ever closer to expiring, an environmental group has released a report detailing what it calls the major environmental benefits of wind development in danger of being lost.
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As more and more property owners choose to generate power with their own solar and wind facilities, large utilities are seeing a loss in income.
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Here's a Mojave Desert living pro-tip: don't leave your jackalope on the porch in November. If you do, the antelope squirrels will strip off its fur to line their nests.
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A study by a renowned alternative energy thinktank holds that California could replace San Onofre by conserving energy and increasing rooftop solar.
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California's power grid operator tries to crack down on a deceptively simple way of gaming the market.
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Water companies are an untapped source for potential power generation, and a startup is working with a Palos Verdes area water company to put some of that power to good use.
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Some law enforcement officials are suggesting California pot growers are behind a string of Napa Valley solar panel thefts.
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Two important articles on desert solar power projects graced the pages of major Southern California newspapers this weekend.
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Here's your chance to comment on a 300-megawatt solar facility in the Ivanpah Valley at the California-Nevada border.
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A high-ranking executive of a major solar developer has suggested that the era of "massive" photovoltaic developments in North America may be coming to an end. He has another idea instead...
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The plan is the largest utility-scale solar project on tribal land in the United States.
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The solar industry shakeout continues as rock-bottom solar panel prices have forced a difficult decision at yet another high-tech California solar firm.
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