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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.

Playa Racetrack, Death Valley
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The khaki West Mojave bore a color I hadn't seen there before: a bright sparse orange scattered across the desert, almost as if someone had planted a few hundred thousand California poppies out among the paper bag bush and creosote.
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The respiratory infection spread by soil fungi has been diagnosed in 28 workers at two solar project construction sites.
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L.A. may have fewer ozone-alert days, but our air quality is still dangerous
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NPCA has been a voice for caution in wind power development near our national parks. Now its recent president advocates for 1,200 wind companies.
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A new campaign encourages LADWP to generate 1,200 megawatts of power -- a fifth of the utility's peak demand -- on L.A. rooftops..
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Construction has launched on more than 3,200 acres straddling the Kern-Los Angeles county line in the Antelope Valley.
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A photo making the rounds of social media may prove embarrassing to the developer of the Ocotillo Express Wind project.
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The BLM is taking measures to ensure that applications for solar and wind projects are given higher priority than other potential uses.
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Follow the energy industry long enough and you learn that certain people have things to say that are both interesting and entertaining.
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The Bay Area's semirural Sonoma County will launch a publicly owned electrical utility.
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LEDs' light output tends to "droop" when lots of current is run through them. A recent study has uncovered the reason.
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Despite the rhetoric, the real world rapidly undermined the project.
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