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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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The state leads the US in solar jobs, and Proposition 39 could create another 21,000 green jobs.
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Plaintiffs charge the federal government conducted an inadequate review of the project's likely effects on desert wildlife.
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Wind developers wanting to install several hundred turbines may be faced with disappointing power output unless models get a lot better.
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Illegal marijuana growers' extreme use of rodenticides is wreaking havoc on California national forests. It's time for the legislature to ban these super toxins.
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"With this work, we are blurring the lines between what is a battery and what is a supercapacitor."
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More than half of the desert biodiversity "hotspots" identified in a study are under threat from renewable energy development.
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A reminder of how fragile our current power distribution system is, vulnerable to acts of both Nature and bored vandals with guns.
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The proposed Palen solar project could be visible from as far away as the Mojave National Preserve, Mount San Jacinto and the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
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Senator Barbara Boxer slams a ruling by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on a proposal to restart the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
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The concerns expressed in the letter may have serious ramifications for other BrightSource projects.
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If a Korean team's work holds up in the real world, we can look forward to even cheaper photovoltaic cells.
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Heading downhill yesterday toward "downtown" Joshua Tree I saw it. It was the developing stalk of a flower, growing out of one of my neighbors' Agaves.
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