Jimmy Carter was the first president to install solar panels on the White House's roof. His successor, Ronald Reagan, removed them. Decades later, the Obama administration installed them again. (We're in the process of verifying whether they're still t...
We reached out to the White House Historical Association to learn if any updates or changes were made to the panels during the Trump administration. They shared with us a photograph from a July 2021in which the panels are still visible, stating, “It appears from photographers that the panels are still installed on the roof.” While they confirmed that the panels are still there, they could not verify with certainty if the Trump administration had made any changes to them before 2020.
Blinder, Alan. “Jimmy Carter Makes a Stand for Solar, Decades After the Cardigan Sweater.” The New York Times, 11 Feb. 2017. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/jimmy-carter-solar-energy-plains-ga.html.“Jimmy Carter Leases His Land to Solar Power Much of Plains.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8 Feb. 2017. https://www.ajc.com/news/jimmy-carter-leases-his-land-solar-power-much-plains/XwFS50Kf1wEI9fXxpvSUnM/. Accessed 6 Oct. 2022.
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