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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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An effort by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) to promote customer installations of chargers for electric cars was so successful that the utility is expanding it. DWP will be offering rebates up to $750 for residents and businesses in...
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A giant energy project that would turn an abandoned open pit mine near Joshua Tree National Park into two hydroelectric storage reservoirs got a thumbs-up from the state's main water quality agency this week.
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The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert suffered a setback in mid-May when a rupture was found in a tube intended to heat steam for use generating power at one of its units. That rupture followed close on the heels of three "i...
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The looming war between old-school utilities and rooftop solar seems to be developing a battlefront in Arizona, and "California billionaires" are the new villains.
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Imagine setting aside several months of your life and trading it all for discovery and adventure.
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A study published Thursday in the journal Science has linked geothermal energy production in the Salton Sea area with an increase in local earthquakes.
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The state's program to promote rooftop solar power generation has reached two thirds of its target.
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A $5 billion Chinese-backed energy project at the southernmost corner of Nevada failed when its owners couldn't find utilities that wanted to buy its power, either in Nevada or across the line in California.
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The fatality marks the first reported death of a federally listed endangered bird at a renewable energy generation site in the mainland U.S.
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Yarnell Hill fire reminds that we don't need a new firefighting policy.
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Is there really enough wind in Ocotillo to justify the area's wind turbines? That's a question some Imperial County residents are asking this week, as Ocotillo Express Wind's operator Pattern Energy slowly brings back online turbines that had been shut...
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Mining interests have had nearly unchallenged access to most public lands since 1872, when Congress passed the General Mining Act and sent it to the white house, where Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law.
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