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Republicans in Congress have advanced a bill cutting clean energy tax credits, and the industry is bracing for the impacts.
Even though the fight to slow climate change—and to preserve our own health—is facing major political obstacles, there are ...
The US clean energy sector is facing a wave of collapses as Congress weighs a spending bill that would gut clean energy tax credits that have kept the industry afloat.
1979, the Carter administration installed 32 solar panels at the white house. Decades later one of those panels has made its way to Vermont, now sitting at the heart of NRG Systems headquarters in ...
Although they’re no longer operational, the fate of Jimmy Carter’s solar panels is getting renewed attention following his death on Dec. 29.
Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels are a symbol — not so much of a road not taken but of a road not taken fast enough in America.
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 seven years later ...
Again, it was that year that the Reagan team quietly took down the Carter solar panels while resurfacing the White House roof. It always takes patience to bring a president’s true legacy into focus.
For 20 years after Carter’s presidency, his White House solar panels were viewed by many as white elephants; symbols of a naive, excessively liberal, starry-eyed president.
The former president, who has died aged 100, famously installed thermal solar panels on the roof of the White House in 1979. Following the death of Jimmy Carter, US president from 1977 to 1981 ...
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. Amid an energy crisis, Carter hoped to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. Amid an energy crisis, Carter hoped to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. President Ronald Reagan ...