"Nobody can embargo sunlight. No cartel controls the Sun. It will not pollute the air; it will not poison our waters. It's free from stench and smog."
Carter vowed to spend hundreds of millions of federal dollars on solar research and development and predicted that solar would provide half of the nation's power by 2020.
Carter has been called a 'conservation legend' for designating 39 new National Park System units and signing the law creating the Superfund program.
His environmental, climate, and public lands legacy is far more complicated - and contradictory - than the public eulogies would suggest.
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