Cheryl Katz

Cheryl Katz is a science writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former staff reporter for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Miami Herald and the Orange County Register, she is now a freelancer specializing in stories about environmental issues and climate change. Her articles have appeared in Scientific American, Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate, among other publications.

More energy on less land: the drive to shrink solar’s footprint

August 18, 2022

by Cheryl Katz

Building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land is a top priority amid land-use conflicts over renewables.
As electric cars stall, a move to greener trucks and buses

June 3, 2016

by Cheryl Katz

Low gas prices and continuing performance issues have slowed the growth of electric car sales. But that has not stymied progress in electrifying larger vehicles.
- Transportation & Mobility
How will new technologies boost solar power?

January 5, 2015

by Cheryl Katz

Super-efficient semiconductors are just one way to drive generation in the coming decades.
- Renewable Energy
- Solar
How new tech is spurring growth in recycling water

June 26, 2014

by Cheryl Katz

Desalination methods are improving, which makes agricultural water and industrial effluent available for reuse.
- Food & Agriculture
Inside San Francisco's quest to recycle all trash by 2020

June 5, 2014

by Cheryl Katz

The man who spearheads San Francisco's efforts discusses how the city engages the public in a recycling crusade that targets zero waste.
- Waste Management
- Cities

Cheryl Katz

More energy on less land: the drive to shrink solar’s footprint

As electric cars stall, a move to greener trucks and buses

How will new technologies boost solar power?

How new tech is spurring growth in recycling water

Inside San Francisco's quest to recycle all trash by 2020