Solar POwer

The Biden administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects nationwide at the site of current or former coal mines.

About 400,000 solar LED umbrellas have been recalled after reports of lithium-ion batteries in the umbrella’s solar panel overheating, causing the product to have unsafe fire and burn hazards.

Harold Souther may not be an obvious candidate to join the solar power industry. The 98-year-old owner of the 200-year-old Souther Family Farm has worked his land in Livermore Falls, Maine, to produce everything from eggs to canning crops to hay. But he says the decision to turn 20 acres of his land into a solar farm was an easy...