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A battle over where to build big clean-energy projects is putting the green revolution in gridlock. In California's rural Panoche Valley, clean-energy advocates and wildlife environmentalists debate whether the world's largest solar energy project should be built there.

A congressional hearing in Fallbrook today considered ways federal resources could respond better to future wildfires, but focused mainly on the need to strengthen San Diego County resources. KPBS rep

California lawmakers may to have to make more health care cuts to help the state cope with a projected $21 billion budget deficit. The Medi-Cal program is one source of potential savings, but it's off limits until 2011.

Bush administration lawyers told a federal judge Friday that there's no evidence that the CIA violated the judge's order when it destroyed videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaida suspects. Lawyers for detainees said the destruction of the tapes makes them fear that other related materials are not being saved.

Just hours before a deadly explosion unleashed an unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, managers on the drilling rig had a dispute about how work would proceed, according to testimony from the rig's chief mechanic. And that testimony has raised questions about whether BP was under pressure to move on to another well.

California's Office of Emergency Services will file an appeal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Friday, appealing FEMA'S decision not to reimburse for wind damage during the fires. KPBS rep

Despite 25 years and billions of dollars spent on cleanup efforts, the Chesapeake Bay remains one of the country's most polluted waterways. With waste of all kinds, each of the almost 17 million people living in the watershed contributes to the pollution.

More than 30 years ago, Rosanne Haggerty founded a group called Common Ground, which turned a hotel on the verge of being condemned in New York City's Times Square into permanent housing for the homeless. Common Ground's program has become a national model for helping the chronically homeless.

Hundreds of San Diego County teachers and school workers will receive notices this week that their jobs could be in jeopardy. March 15 is the contractual deadline for public school districts to tell their employees they may out of a job by summer.

Senate Democrats pushed through a procedural wall Saturday night and formally opened the floor debate on their effort to overhaul the nation's $2.5 trillion health care system. The Senate mustered 60 votes, the exact number required to prevent a Republican filibuster against consideration of the bill, in a straight party-line vote.