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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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Fire from a burning operation around the Rim Fire. | Photo: Courtesy Mike McMillan/USFS/Inciweb
It's not to early to think about the Rim fire's significance. We should have done so before it blew up.
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Remember biodiesel? The fuel that was going to save the world back 10 or 12 years ago, but then fell off many people's radar? Now the fuel is on the upswing. California's biodiesel sector is growing by leaps and bounds.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute suggests a way that solar companies might entice homeowners to go solar: give them a whole lot of cash up front.
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A group concerned with the preservation of Native sacred sites in the Colorado River valley has charged that the Federal Government isn't reaching out to local Native people as the law requires.
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Environmental injustice is easy to spot. It's harder to rectify.
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The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a study this month that's bound to generate some controversy: its authors are saying they found no evidence that the presence of utility-scale wind turbines causes a drop in nearby resiidential propert...
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Could humans really drive themselves to extinction by changing the global climate? Maybe, but that's really the wrong question to ask.
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First Solar has identifed its two staff members killed in Monday's plane crash near its Desert Sunlight solar facility in Riverside County as Mike Cyr, 41, and Jeff Randall, 35.
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A small fixed-wing aircraft apparently crashed early Monday afternoon in the Riverside County desert west of Blythe, and police say that the plane was likely occupied by employees of the company building the Desert Sunlight Solar facility near Joshua T...
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The EPA has released a series of videos on everyday actions you can take to slow down climate change, aimed at those of us who haven't yet devoted our entire waking lives to worrying about the issue of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The 900-acre Catalina solar power plant in the Mojave Desert section of Kern County is completed. The plant's owner EDF Renewable Energy announced this week that the 143-megawatt plant has "reached commercial operation."
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Los Angeles, a city known for its Hollywood stars, is, ironically, a place where actual stars can hardly be seen.
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