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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 bill to revamp the state's laws regulating how utilities treat rooftop solar that had been a target of pointed criticism by pro-solar groups passed a voice vote on the Senate Floor Monday with amendments that have some solar advocates singing cauti...
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Food deserts are not exclusive to the urban setting of the congested, polluted concrete jungle.
Fracking has occurred at the Inglewood Oil Field in L.A. County
Texas has stiffer regulations of fracking than California. Go figure.
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Leaving your hot water running for five minutes can use as much energy as operating a 60-watt light bulb for 14 hours.
Detail of a sign at a fracking protest in New York City
Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion today calling for a citywide halt to hydraulic fracturing.
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Significant changes to a large solar project's design have prompted the BLM to go at least part of the way back to the drawing board with regard to the project's Environmental Impact Statement.
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California's U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has reaffirmed her concerns over the fossil fuel extraction process known as "fracking" by informally endorsing a bill in the state Legislature tthat would put strict limits on the practice.
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A draft of a policy would require the state's three largest utilities to start acquiring power storage capacity, with a target of more than 1,300 megawatts of storage capacity by 2020.
Oil production in the current L.A. neighborhoods of Hancock Park (1920s) and Venice Beach (1930s).
The days of the gushers are over -- but fracking, acidization, horizontal drilling, and other recent "enhanced recovery techniques" are giving new life to old L.A. oilfields.
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Financial support of distributed solar has been a hot-button issue since the right decided to make the Solyndra bankruptcy a mass media talking point. But solar's got a lot of catching up to do before it enjoys the public subsidy paid out to another fo...
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Sometimes we hate having our suspicions confirmed. Look for thefts like this to grow.
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The Quechan Indian Tribe minces no words about a proposed solar energy project in Riverside County.
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