On a day of remembrance for former President Jimmy Carter, his pioneering contributions to solar energy live on at a ...

One of Carter’s most significant actions, a symbolic one, was installing solar panels on the White House. And he signed the National Energy Act, which reduced U.S. dependence on foreign oil and ...

Warren K. Leffler/U.S. News & World Report via Library of Congress President Jimmy Carter speaks in front of the solar panels installed on the roof of the West Wing of the White House as he ...

Jimmy Carter famously installed solar panels on the White House in 1979. (His successor removed them.) With the passing of our 39th president on Dec. 29 at age 100, a whirlwind tour of the ...

Jimmy Carter is famous for installing solar panels on the White House and shepherding the nation through the oil crises of ...

By Mary Morgan My mother loved Jimmy Carter, especially for putting solar panels on the White House. That was 1979. She had ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, made a lasting impact on environmental policy. His robust initiatives to protect ...

Politics 2024-12-31T17:21:59Z Jimmy Carter was the first president to install White House solar panels, then Ronald Reagan removed them. Here's what happened. Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s ...

As an idealistic Journalism grad student in Boulder, I loved that he was a Washington outsider, that he installed solar panels on the White House, and that he linked our foreign aid to the human ...