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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 utility has set a goal to become 15 percent more energy efficient by 2020, exceeding the state's requirement for utilities to cut energy use by 10 percent, Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is rebooting her effort to protect almost a million and a half acres of the California desert, she announced Thursday. At a…
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A controversial solar power tower project proposed for Riverside County that was recently pulled by its owners from consideration by the state of California will be brought back to the table by one of those owners, it was announced Tuesday.
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For the first time in over 70 years, a gray wolf has been sighted roaming the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, according to conservation groups who viewed a photo shared with them by a visitor to Grand Canyon National Park.
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A solar power plant in the Mojave Desert that's attracted negative attention for its injuries to birds is producing a whole lot less power than it's supposed to, according to Energy Department figures.
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A proposal that would have placed 71 wind turbines on the north slope of the San Bernardino Mountains has been withdrawn by its owner, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
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Though it's no secret that the Sacramento Delta has been radically transformed for agriculture, urban development and water supply, a new report on those changes offers some truly sobering facts about just how much of the Delta we've lost.
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Studies commissioned by the state of California show that idle computers waste a whole lot more energy than we suspect.
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The Amargosa vole, once thought extinct, is getting some help from a captive breeding program at UC Davis.
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A new mapping project can give Californians a "heads up" about pending energy projects in their neighborhoods, which can help neighbors wield better input into energy decision making that can affect their lives, their property values, and their health.
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And, in fact, the plan, several years in the making, is already outdated.
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Despite losing more than 2,000 megawatts of power from the shuttered San Onofre nuke and almost as much from drought-depleted reservoirs, California's power grid sailed through the long hot summer of 2014 -- with a little help from renewable energy.
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