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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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According to preliminary data the state passed the 2,000 megawatts of solar mark for the first time, with the day's peak at or a hair below 2,100 megawatts.
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Environmental and citizens' groups and a U.S. Senator are applauding an announcement early Friday that Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear power plant will be staying closed permanently. Antinuclear groups are now setting their sights on ...
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SoCal Edison cited mounting costs and regulatory uncertainty as the main reasons for its decision.
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The announcement comes after a year of retrenchment and altered goals for BrightSource.
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Summer sunshine can raise the roof's temperature by a startling amount, and that heats the interior of the building, leading to more energy use for climate control. There are solutions.
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The Interior Department approved three new renewable energy projects on public lands in Arizona and Nevada on Monday. But one of those plants probably won't be built until the developer finds a California utility to buy the power, and that might not be...
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The terns are migratory seabirds that breed primarily along the California coast. Only two other sites have been found in L.A. County.
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Owners haven't been able to get the legal permission to add to the Inland Empire's air pollution burden.
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The Nevada Assembly voted Monday night to order the shut down of a coal-fired power plant northeast of Las Vegas that supplies the California Department of Water Resources with electrical power.
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Cars and trucks are still the largest source of air pollution, but regulations have changed that smog's chemistry. The air doesn't make us cry as often as it used to.
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For it has been 110 years after the state legislature made official its status as The Golden State's flower that I had finally been successful at growing them en masse.
"Families in surrounding neighborhoods of proposed power plants and cities alike have been frustrated for years by the lack of judicial review of Energy Commission siting and permitting decisions. When communities are denied their day in court, democra...
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