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Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2026 remarks at the White House:
“We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2026
Seth Moulton
Seth Moulton
stated on March 24, 2026 an interview on MS NOW:
"Bombing civilian power infrastructure is a war crime.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 2, 2026
Tom O'Mara
Tom O'Mara
stated on January 20, 2026 an op-ed:
“New Yorkers pay 49% more than the national average for electricity.”
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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”
Mostly True
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.”
Mostly True
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.
Mostly True
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.
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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.
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
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.
Mostly True
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."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019
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