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 ...

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

The need for alternative sources of energy and a desire for energy independence prompted President Jimmy Carter to install the first solar panels on the roof of the White House in 1979.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Jimmy Carter was the first president to install White House solar panels, then Ronald Reagan removed them. Here's what happened.