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The Reason Why the White House Don't Want Solar Panels

Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House, but Reagan tore them down. Activist Bill McKibben and two young climate activists wanted to present these solar panels to the White House. The White House is like, no, thank you; we could get a better model. But that symbolic gesture did not see itself followed their own.

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