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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.

Playa Racetrack, Death Valley
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Photo: Courtesy special collections at Honnold Library Claremont Colleges
Since the mid-19th century, Yosemite has been lauded as America's wonderland, its playground -- beguiling, transformative, divine. It is also a tourist trap. A new exhibit probes the connection between these two sides of Yosemite.
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A comment period on a federal policy that has blocked solar installations and energy efficiency draws to a close this week
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First Solar will be selling more Central Valley solar power to Northern California
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Governor Brown signs bills making it easier to build solar on the Central Coast, and mine geothermal brine for valuable minerals.
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Southern Californians had better get used to smelling the Salton Sea, because this week's stench will almost certainly return -- unless we restore the Sea.
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L.A's veteran Congressional Representative wants hearings on how a warmer world makes it harder to generate electricity.
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Renewable energy enthusiasts have been saying for a few years that there's plenty of disturbed and damaged land we could be developing for solar, wind, and other renewables. And now, the EPA is backing them up.
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BrightSource relents and submits a plan to survey its Rio Mesa site for fossils.
Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on stage as he accepts the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention | Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
Some of the energy-related claims in Obama's nomination speech at the DNC check out. Others? Not so much.
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Green power advocates say a recent bill is an attack on community-based renewable energy.
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The Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and some of California's most conservative farming businesses teamed up to support the state's recent ethanol ban.
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Some kinds of energy conservation are far cheaper per watt than new renewables.
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