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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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A shadowy conservative, corporate-supported non-profit funded by the Koch Brothers and Exxon-Mobil plans to take on Renewable Portfolio Standards across the country in the coming legislative season.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be considering a request by the environmental group Friends of the Earth to keep San Diego County's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shut down until its licence is formally amended and current safety con...
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Proposition 39, which would raise money for green energy projects by closing a loophole in California's corporate tax laws, passed with a resounding majority Tuesday
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has set the date for a workshop at which members of the public can voice their views and concerns over BrightSource Energy's proposed Rio Mesa Solar Project near Blythe, California.
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A veteran Bay Area Congressman wished he could buy a car from failed solar panel maker Solyndra. His opposition has been running with it.
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There's off the grid, and then there's really off the grid. The BioLite Stove promises to give you a source of power for your personal appliances, generated by burning twigs.
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A team of researchers at Stanford University have found a way we might be able to use carbon to help solve the climate problem: by building photovoltaic cells with the stuff.
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FERC has given British bank Barclays 30 days to argue why it shouldn't pay $470 million in damages and fines over the company's alleged gaming of the California electrical power market.
Property damage along the New Jersey coast caused by Hurricane Sandy. | Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Erik Swanson/U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images)
I never meant to be so predictive. In a column I wrote this summer about the extraordinary vulnerability of the Jersey Shore to the erosive force of hurricanes, I suggested it was so vulnerable because of Nature (Mother) and nature (human). Two months ...
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A wildlife biologist suggests a San Diego County wind farm could spell the end of the regiojn's failing eagle population.
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a lesson for Californians seeking to make our power grid more resilient.
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The state's Public Utilities Commission rules on five power sales contracts between SCE and the solar developer BrightSource, approving only two of them.
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