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

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

Amid an energy crisis, Carter hoped to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. President Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels in 1986.

Living With Climate Change President Carter was the first to put solar panels on the White House. Reagan removed them 7 years later. Nixon created the EPA, but was Carter the first ‘green ...

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels at the White House. His successor, Ronald Reagan, later removed them.

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 ...

The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates.