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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 Southern California judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service paid enough attention to the welfare of Endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep when it assessed the environmental effects of an Imperial County wind facility near Anza-Borrego D...
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A report released Monday offers human-interest-style case studies of Los Angeles solar installations ranging from skid row SRO hotels to the titans of L.A's flagship industry. And each case profiled shows that there's good reason to go solar in Los Ang...
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CDFW is seeing to a trio of abandoned mountain lion cubs in Siskiyou County. But they may not be reintroduced into the wild.
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A subsidiary of the nation's largest electrical power company was sentenced Friday over deaths of 14 golden eagles and more than 140 other protected birds at its wind facilities. The sentence marks the first successful prosecution of a wind energy comp...
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Okay, this is cool: a Seattle-based startup is promiising that you'll be able to top off your phone or charge your camp light using the energy in flowing water -- but without a gigantic dam.
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If you wanted to give some kind of award to the company that just became the largest participant in the L.A. Department of Water and Power's CLEAN LA Solar program, we know where you could get a pretty good deal.
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President Kennedy's assassination rocked the nation, and changed my understanding of politics.
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The National Park Service has made its opinion known on a proposed solar power tower project just outside the boundaries of Joshua Tree National Park. That opinion: scrap the project.
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BrightSource Energy makes it official: its acting CEO David Ramm gets to take that "acting" off his job description.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service won't be listing two rare California native plants as Endangered.
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California wind turbines kill more wildlife per megawatt than identical turbines in other parts of the country, according to a new study by two Smithsonian Institution researchers and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist.
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Solar power facilities in the California desert may hurt wildlife populations from the Arctic to Panama.
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