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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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The state's third-largest public utility expects to surpass California's renewable power requirements.
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PG&E's cumbersome solar grid hookup process is dealing a serious financial blow to a school district in a small Mendocino County town.
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LADWP approves environmental documents for a new 75-mile transmission line in the Mojave Desert.
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Developers of a large photovoltaic array on former farmland get good news from their bank.
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A Republican-backed House bill to end Department of Energy loan guarantees probably won't make it any farther on the Hill, but it may offer a rallying point for campaigning conservatives.
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A German study suggests individual wind turbines may kill bats from thousands of miles away, which has troubling implications for California species.
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A new program launched this week in 14 California counties allows commercial property owners to finance energy upgrades and pay the loan off through their property tax bills.
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The EPA clears a procedural roadblock for a gas-fired power plant in Palmdale that has some solar attached.
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A Tennessee solar company shoots itself in the foot with sexist advertising.
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You might imagine a facility of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) going off the grid in the back of beyond. But a USFS facility is now generating all of its own power with solar panels in the middle of the suburban San Gabriel Valley.
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If you see a woodpeckery-looking woodpecker in the Mojave, it's probably a ladder-backed.
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The National Parks Conservation Association says we should learn from three solar project siting "mistakes" near desert national parks.
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