Latest Fact-Checks In Environment

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on January 20, 2026 posts on social media
Trees can explode if temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • January 26, 2026
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 28, 2024 a press conference
The proposal to put golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks “was something that was leaked. … a lot of that stuff was half-baked and was not ready for prime time.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Jesse James
Jesse James
stated on May 13, 2024 News conference
In Wisconsin, “a legislative committee cannot release funding.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • August 27, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 20, 2023 an Instagram post
"NYC mayor plans to track and limit meat and dairy."
Mostly False
May 25, 2023
Nicholas Langworthy
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 a tweet
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola, Mary McNaughton • March 9, 2023
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste
stated on August 31, 2022 a Facebook ad
“More than half of the $739 billion tax increase (in the Inflation Reduction Act) will go to wasteful Green New Deal programs like tree equity, 'clean' garbage trucks, and studying cow farts."
Mostly False
By Jessica Riley, Sierra Worden • October 25, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 2, 2022 an interview with CNN
Lee County, Florida, wasn't "even in the cone" of Hurricane Ian 72 hours before landfall.
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • October 4, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 23, 2022 Twitter
"Democrats' radical green energy policies caused record gas prices. "
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • September 16, 2022
Sean Ryan
Sean Ryan
stated on March 3, 2022 an op-ed
“New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”
Mostly False
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 29, 2022
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on March 15, 2022 a video on his website
“As soon as Biden took office, he eliminated all subsidies for fossil fuels.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2021 a Facebook post
“FDA approval means nothing when you realize the FDA also approves pesticides in our food!"
Mostly False
By Jason Asenso • August 27, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 29, 2021 a Facebook post
"Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as running a petrol car for eight years."
Mostly False
By Andy Nguyen • May 11, 2021
Survival International
Survival International
stated on April 22, 2021 a website press release
With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 7, 2021
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2020 an article
Video from 2019 shows Kamala Harris “caught in a major lie” about fracking during the 2020 vice presidential debate.
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 12, 2020
Paul Junge
Paul Junge
stated on June 10, 2020 a campaign website
“Even so-called moderate Democrats like Joe Biden have endorsed a ban on fracking, which would eliminate 516,000 Michigan jobs and reduce the state’s gross domestic product by $159 billion over five years.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • June 19, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden “just announced on CNN he will completely shut down drilling for oil and natural gas on day one of his administration.”
Mostly False
March 20, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2020 a post on Facebook
An image shows animals burning in the Australia wildfires   
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2020
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 20, 2019 a Facebook post
"A study shows that households neighboring West Virginia could be on the hook for upwards of $70,000 in the first year alone under the Green New Deal!"
Mostly False
By Broghan Swart, Glenn Kittle, Steven Murphy • October 8, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 8, 2019 a Facebook post
Says aquatic life near Alaska, Canada and Australia have been found with cancer and mutations as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • September 11, 2019
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