As Biello noted, after Reagan took down the panels in 1986, one of the 32 was saved and now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, one is at the Carter Library, and ...

President Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels in 1986. After President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100, world leaders, including former US presidents and the British royal family, ...

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 ...

The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. ... In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House.

In my alternate reality — let’s call it “Chasing the Sun for All Mankind” — Reagan, instead of ordering Carter’s crude solar panels to be removed in 1986, would have doubled down on ...

If Reagan had built on Carter’s commitment to renewable energy we might have cut years from our clean power goals.

In 1986, Reagan had the solar panels removed during repairs to the roof of the White House. President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. Diana Walker/Getty Images.

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