The glaring loophole in what was hailed as the nation's first solar water heater mandate won't be closed this year. If anything, it might be getting wider. Senate Bill 1372 proposes to shift responsibility for administering a key exemption to the law from the state to the individual counties. A two-part Civil Beat investigation in November — Part 1 and Part 2 — revealed that more than 20 percent of new homes permitted in the first ten months of 2010 were set to install not solar-powered but... Continuar leyendo