Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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stated on January 20, 2026 an op-ed
“New Yorkers pay 49% more than the national average for electricity.”
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By Brooke Johnpier • February 13, 2026
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 a speech in North Carolina
“Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2024
Morgan Luttrell
Morgan Luttrell
stated on January 10, 2023 a tweet
"Energy costs are the highest in 15 years."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 16, 2023
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on October 12, 2022 a press conference
Katie Hobbs “has voted to double our gas tax.”
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By Alexis Waiss • November 3, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on July 17, 2022 Debate
“We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.”
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By Kelly Smits • August 9, 2022
Tim Michels
Tim Michels
stated on June 23, 2022 Twitter
“My company was building the Keystone Pipeline when (President Joe) Biden canceled it.”
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By Kelly Smits • July 21, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 3, 2022 a press conference
"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • April 4, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2022 a Facebook post
U.S. imports 1% of its oil from Russia while “Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell profits are at their highest level in over 7 years.”
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By Andy Nguyen • March 10, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 8, 2022 a speech
The oil industry has "9,000 permits to drill now. They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year."
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By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • March 9, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 Facebook post
The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks when signing climate change executive orders
“84% of all new electric capacity planned to come onto the electric grid this year is clean energy.”
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By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2021
Christi Craddick
Christi Craddick
stated on December 12, 2020 a tweet
Says that the oil and gas industry comprises 35% of the Texas economy.
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By Brandon Mulder • December 22, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 a campaign ad
Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.
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By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 a press conference
China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."
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By Minh Do • December 4, 2019
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on August 25, 2019 a tweet
The United States is "#1 in oil consumption" in the world.
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By Autumn Cecil, Jacqueline Kautz • October 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 a speech
"From 2010 to 2017, natural gas production plummeted by nearly 70 percent in New York, but it soared almost 1,000 percent in Pennsylvania."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 4, 2019
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 a U.S. House hearing
"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.
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By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 10, 2019 in an interview
"We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years."
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By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019
Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on December 7, 2018 Speech on carbon pricing.
"As a city, we currently use about 4 percent less electricity today than we used in 1989."
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By Elizabeth Gribkoff • December 8, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on September 4, 2018 a campaign ad
Says he "beat (President Barack) Obama at the Supreme Court, saving coal jobs."
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By Anja Martin • September 20, 2018
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