Latest Fact-Checks In Environment

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Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski
stated on January 20, 2025 an X post
"Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years."
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By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 15, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money."
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By Laura Schulte • June 14, 2024
Brad Holyman-Sigal
Brad Holyman-Sigal
stated on February 26, 2024 a press release
“Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.”
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By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • March 24, 2024
Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design
stated on March 1, 2023 a report
“Every single county in New York has experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021.”
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By Cameron Carr • March 29, 2023
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
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 Panel discussion
“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.
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By Laura Schulte • November 30, 2021
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
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on October 26, 2020 Twitter
"In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much."
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By D.L. Davis • December 4, 2020
Paula Jean Swearengin
Paula Jean Swearengin
stated on September 10, 2020 a tweet
“West Virginia is near last in the U.S.” rankings of education, clean drinking water, and child mortality.
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By Morgan Akers, Rylan Toledo • November 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 a headline in a Facebook post
“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”
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By Amy Sherman • May 18, 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
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on February 12, 2020 committee hearing remarks
“We’ve also seen in the time that he’s (Donald Trump) been president, an increase in carbon emissions going absolutely in the wrong way.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 16, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 a tweet
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
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By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 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
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on August 26, 2019 a news conference
 "Every time we go to court," against the Trump administration, "for the most part, we win." 
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By Chris Nichols • September 25, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 a cable TV news interview.
"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism." 
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in an interview
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
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By John Kruzel • March 21, 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 February 20, 2019 an interview
"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."  
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March 8, 2019
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