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Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski
stated on January 20, 2025 in an X post:
"Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years."
Mostly True
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 15, 2024 in 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."
Mostly True
By Laura Schulte • June 14, 2024
Brad Holyman-Sigal
Brad Holyman-Sigal
stated on February 26, 2024 in 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.”
Mostly True
By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • March 24, 2024
Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design
stated on March 1, 2023 in a report:
“Every single county in New York has experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr • March 29, 2023
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on July 17, 2022 in Debate:
“We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.”
Mostly True
By Kelly Smits • August 9, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 in 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 in 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
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on October 26, 2020 in Twitter:
"In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • December 4, 2020
Paula Jean Swearengin
Paula Jean Swearengin
stated on September 10, 2020 in a tweet:
“West Virginia is near last in the U.S.” rankings of education, clean drinking water, and child mortality.
Mostly True
By Morgan Akers, Rylan Toledo • November 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 in a headline in a Facebook post:
“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in 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
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on February 12, 2020 in 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.”
Mostly True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 16, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 in a tweet:
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 in 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."
Mostly True
By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 in 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
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on August 26, 2019 in a news conference:
 "Every time we go to court," against the Trump administration, "for the most part, we win." 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • September 25, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 in 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." 
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in in an interview:
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 in 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 February 20, 2019 in an interview:
"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2019
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