Amy Goodman
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Bill McKibben Urges Obama to Fulfill Promise To Reinstall Solar Panels On White House
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June 21, 2011
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1:48Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - The Obama White House has reneged on a promise to reinstall solar panels on the White House before the end of spring. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu made the pledge last fall. President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House in the 1970s but they were removed by President Ronald Reagan. On Monday, Democracy Now! spoke to environmental leader Bill McKibben of 350.org, who criticized the Obama White House for failing to live up to its promise.
"Thirty-two-years ago today, President Jimmy Carter inaugurated a set of solar panels on the roof of the White House and last fall Barack Obama promised that he would follow suit. He said by the end of the spring they'd be back up there," McKibben says. "Unfortunately, they're not and all we have is a kind of vague promise from the White House that they'll get there someday. That's too bad because we need to demonstrate real leadership on renewable energy. The solar panels that Jimmy Carter put up and then Ronald Reagan took down, one of them is now in a museum in China, where 250 million people are using solar hot water heaters right now. We need to get back in this game and we need Barack Obama to keep his promises and lead us on that way."
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