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Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on July 7, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2024
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2023 in An interview on CNBC:
“We produce a lot more wind energy in Texas than California does.”
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By Sarah Bahari • November 14, 2023
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on August 13, 2022 in Twitter:
Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.”
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By Laura Schulte • August 19, 2022
Randy Feenstra
Randy Feenstra
stated on October 5, 2021 in a tweet:
The Biden administration "published a study concluding 4 (of) 5 new cars on the road by 2050 will still require liquid fuels."
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By Lyle Muller, Sabine Martin • October 28, 2021
Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer
stated on February 26, 2021 in testimony:
“Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They’re buried beneath the ground.”
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By Brandon Mulder • March 5, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2019 in a campaign ad:
California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state’s wildfires "contained so much misinformation."
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By Chris Nichols • December 18, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2019 in a stump speech:
"I’m one of the first guys to introduce a climate change bill, way, way back in ’87."
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By John Kruzel • May 8, 2019
Derrick Crowe
Derrick Crowe
stated on June 3, 2017 in as quoted in an Austin American-Statesman news story:
Says each of the past three years "has been the hottest on record."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 15, 2017
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 1, 2017 in a tweet:
"Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didn't sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasn't tough enough."
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By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2017
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 18, 2015 in U.S. Senate:
"This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years."  
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By Mark Reynolds • June 21, 2015
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on May 1, 2015 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
Annual precipitation "has increased in Rhode Island by over 12 inches in the last century."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 14, 2015
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on April 8, 2015 in a blog post:
Wisconsin’s attorney general and state treasurer ordered the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson not to discuss climate change on state time.
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By James B. Nelson • April 10, 2015
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 17, 2014 in a Senate floor speech:
"January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 12, 2015
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 7, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
Says Charlie Crist rode on a jet that "belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water."
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By Joshua Gillin • August 15, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary:
"There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
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By Karen Lee Ziner • July 6, 2014
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on March 26, 2014 in a committee hearing:
The National Science Foundation awarded $700,000 to fund a climate change musical.
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2014
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on March 2, 2014 in a television ad:
Says "Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL."
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By Steve Contorno • March 5, 2014
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on January 16, 2014 in a speech:
As a result of climate change, ice fishermen in Wisconsin "are already noticing fewer days they can be out on our ice covered lakes."
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By James B. Nelson • February 17, 2014
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on January 15, 2014 in remarks at a news conference:
"Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2014
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on August 14, 2013 in a TV ad:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air"
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By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2013
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