Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Solar power is often hailed as one of the cleanest available sources of energy, but that claim may not be entirely true.
Numbers provided by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control show that solar panel manufacturers in the state produced more than 46-million pounds of hazardous waste between 2007 and 2011.
For more on this, we're joined now by Dustin Mulvaney, a San Jose State professor who studies waste created by solar industry.