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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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10 teens hold hands around the largest known Sycamore in Goleta, CA. | Photo: Courtesy Ken Knight/Goleta Valley Beautiful
It's the second tree in Goleta that has been recognized as a "national champion."
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A Bay Area company may have a rooftop solar solution for commercial buildings that can't support conventional panels
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A 1980s-era wind turbine complex in the Sacramento Delta gets a big makeover.
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The Interior Department approves a transmission line across an Area of Critical Environmental Concern.
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The Los Angeles City Council votes in favor of a rate hike for the L.A. Department of Water and Power.
Russell E. Train. | Photo: Courtesy The Heinz Awards
He was deeply engaged with some of the late 20th-century's most pivotal environmental issues, and did so as a Republican stalwart -- Richard Nixon, for example, appointed him as the EPA's second administrator.
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You'll be able to fast-charge your Tesla Model S for free, for life, using solar electricity, at any of the network of Supercharger stations the company is building across the country. If, that is, you ever get your hands on one of the cars.
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It turns out Americans pay more for renewable energy per kilowatt-hour than Germans do, and yet Germany's solar industry is growing by leaps and bounds compared to ours.
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Joshua trees may denote hot deserts in many minds, but the place they live in gets pretty cold as well.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may suspend JPMorgan's rights to participate in the electrical power business unless the company can prove it didn't game the California grid.
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SCE hooks up to Oregon's largest wind facility.
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In August, Germany installed 320 megawatts of rooftop solar -- about a quarter of California's total capacity.
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