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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 federal judge has reversed a 1999 land swap in Riverside County that would have allowed the Kaiser Eagle Mountain company to build a large landfill adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will spend a year deciding whether to grant the monarch butterfly protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to an announcement scheduled to be released Wednesday.
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Though the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided just four years ago that the coastal California gnatcatcher still needs the protection of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the agency is announcing Wednesday that it will consider removing the bird from...
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As a fourth severe drought year looms, it's no surprise that a lot of the laws passed in California in 2014 pertain to water.
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In 2014 the California Legislature passed some far-reaching laws to reduce what goes into our landfills and hazardous waste dumps.
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The California Legislature passed tons of new environmental laws in 2014, with many of them going into effect on January 1. The area of land use regulations is no exception. We've compiled some of the most important new land use laws here.
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January 1 is a traditional day on which new laws approved by the California legislature go into effect, and a lot of new energy laws made their way past Governor Brown's desk in 2014. We've described the most important here.
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Come New Year's Day, new wildlife laws going into effect include a number of procedural matters, refinements and clarifications of earlier laws, and a few important new wildlife protection measures. We've described the most important here.
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Logging has seriously hurt the California spotted owl, say two wildlife groups who want the bird protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Sometimes knowing things about the natural world is a real downer.
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Good news for Californians who like having wolves, bears, bobcats and pumas around: a study by 50 European wildlife biologists suggests that given public support and a few laws protecting them, large carnivores can coexist with large numbers of people.
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A $25 billion plan to reengineer the Bay Delta would still harm fish and the Delta's beleaguered environment.
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