Shining a light on solar panel installation scams

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey at wbur.org/survey. Rep. Ilhan Omar just won her primary. But members of "The Squad" have taken some major hits. Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost their primary races. Politico's Ally Mutnick joins us. And, the solar panel industry is booming. Despite the benefits, some consumers take issue with the sales tactics and misinformation around the financing terms for solar installation. NPR climate and energy correspondent Jeff Brady joins us. Then, Suzanne Flament-Smith talks with us about the bottle she found washed ashore after Hurricane Debby struck Florida. The enclosed letter seems to have been written by a sailor toward the end of World War II.

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0:35.9	let's get started. Part of the panic in the progressive movement right now is they
0:40.9	really don't have any way to fight back.
0:44.8	The state of the squad after Ilhan Omar wins and others lose.
0:53.0	It is Wednesday, August 14th from NPR and W-B-U-R Boston.
1:06.0	Welcome to Here and Now, any time.
1:08.5	I'm Shirley Jehahad. On today's episode, we shed some light on solar scams. Rooftop solar panels,
1:20.0	great idea, but the fraud is out of this world in pricing and financing for installation.
1:27.0	Customers are complaining, prosecutors are investigating.
1:31.0	And then, hurricanes cause plenty of destruction, certainly.
1:35.0	But Debbie recently also dredged up the past.
1:38.0	I discovered the bottle that was kind of mingled within the storm debris and you could clearly see a letter in it.
1:49.0	More on the proverbial message in a bottle coming up.
1:53.0	First now, how is the squad surviving?
1:57.0	Ilhan Omar just won her primary in Minnesota,
2:01.0	but Corey Bush and Missouri lost, and so did Jamal Bowman in New York.
2:06.0	What does it mean for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party?
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