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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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Biofuels face some economic and policy hurdles in the U.S., but the industry is still growing.
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Environmentalists react to Interior's approval of its sweeping public lands solar plan.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (front) and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (back) depart the stage following their debate at the Norton Center at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, October 10, 2012. | Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages)
Renewable energy didn't come up much in the Vice Presidential debate, but what one of the candidates did say on the topic was almost completely wrong.
Solyndra is suing three Chinese solar panel makers for allegedly conspiring to drive U.S. manufacturers out of business.
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Ever find yourself wanting to know where California's solar, wind, and other renewable energy facilities are? That just got a lot easier, thanks to the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today that it had approved an environmental impact statement for developing solar energy facilities on almost 20 million acres of public lands in six states -- nearly a million acres of that in California.
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California's electric power utilities pay their bosses enough that all three made the top ten richest utility CEOs list for 2011.
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Investment pundits are declaring solar "over" these days. But they're badly wrong, for a handful of reasons.
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LADWP will buy power from a tribe hoping to replace their coal-polluted life with renewable energy.
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One of California's largest rooftop solar companies plans an IPO.
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The Angeles National Forest is poised to get the ax. There are a lot of hands gripping that particular handle, too.The National Park Service (NPS) is…
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An electrical hazard on some solar modules knocks down First Solar's stock value.
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