Praise for Carter's deployment of hot water solar panels ignores, among other things, his promotion of coal and synthetic ...

Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

By Austyn Gaffney It was a novel idea at the time, but one that made sense: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. They were removed just ...

Nearly 40 years after President Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House's roof, he watched nearly 4,000 of them go up in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in 2017. The panels were ...

Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the ...

In 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 solar panels at the white house. The panels, which were used to heat water, were dismantled during the Reagan Era and remained in storage until they ...

In the renewable energy arena, Jimmy Carter is perhaps best known for having solar panels installed on the roof of the White ...

Alas, they did not, so Carter’s White House solar panels today are also a symbol; not so much of a road not taken but of a road not taken fast enough in America. By the way, Carter was also ...

The peanut farmer turned president, who died Sunday at 100, put solar panels on the White House and once spent 89 seconds ...

The culture war against clean energy had begun. And the solar panels on the White House came down. According to the Washington Post, the founder of the company that installed the panels said that ...

Among the many causes Carter championed was renewable energy, which led him to install solar panels on the White House in 1979. His successor, President Ronald Reagan, did not share Carter's ...