Latest Fact-Checks In Oil Spill

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Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on April 20, 2017 in a tweet:
"Trump looking to open up E Coast & new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP"
True
By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 27, 2017 in an interview in the Press-Republican newspaper in Plattsburgh:
The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • April 16, 2017
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on February 12, 2014 in newspaper articles:
On oil drilling off Florida’s coast
No Flip
By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2014
Josh Fox
Josh Fox
stated on January 19, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry":
"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012" with "more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill."
Mostly True
January 23, 2014
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on October 11, 2012 in a TV attack ad:
Says Connie Mack "is protecting Chevron oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rainforests."
Half-True
October 18, 2012
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on April 10, 2012 in a Web ad:
Says oil "production's down where Obama's in charge."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 13, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 8, 2012 in a press release:
The RESTORE Act started as an "effort to dedicate as much BP fine money as possible towards Gulf Coast restoration" but now "could steer money to places like the Great Lakes and West Coast."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla.:
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 24, 2012
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Senate floor speech:
Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to "wrangle the actual streaming video" from BP that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow.
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • October 26, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 14, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Says the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 in an interview on Fox:
"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."
Pants on Fire!
June 3, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
We are looking at "150,000 barrels (of oil) per day less next year, and 200,000 barrels per day less being able to be developed from the gulf the year after" because of the moratorium on new drilling enacted by the Obama administration.
Mostly False
June 3, 2011
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on April 19, 2011 in a posting on Twitter:
Says he couldn't keep a 42-inch redfish he caught because of fishing rules.
True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 22, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 26, 2011 in a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference:
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."
Pants on Fire!
March 29, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 in a press conference:
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 in a press conference:
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."
Half-True
March 15, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on December 1, 2010 in a press release:
"A 5 percent increase in domestic production would increase the world supply by less than 1 percent and do almost nothing to our dependence on foreign oil. This would also have virtually no effect on the price of gas at the pump."  
True
By Amy Sherman • December 13, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on December 7, 2010 in a meeting of the Florida Cabinet:
"150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • December 8, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2010 in an interview on CNN.:
On offshore oil drilling.
No Flip
By Aaron Sharockman • December 3, 2010
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