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stated on April 10, 2019 in a Facebook post:

A PETA activist was taped to a tree after protesting a biker rally.

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 22, 2019

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stated on April 11, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes Thomas Homer-Dixon as saying a windmill will "never generate as much energy as was invested building it."

By Samantha Putterman • April 12, 2019

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stated on March 11, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"The day Al Gore was born, there were 130,000 glaciers on earth. Today, only 130,000 remain."

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 2, 2019

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stated on March 28, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Bluegill fish "are responsible for over 500 deaths in the United States every summer."

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 1, 2019

Scott Beck
stated on March 26, 2019 in debate on the House floor:

"It is a carbon tax whether it is convenient to say it or not."

By Colin Meyn • March 29, 2019

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stated on March 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"President Trump signed legislation to clean up millions of tons of trash from our oceans and lakes last week."

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 27, 2019

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."

By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019

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.

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019

Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 in a speech:

"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in 1789."

By Tom Kertscher • March 12, 2019

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."

By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2019

Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2019 in an Orlando Sentinel op-ed:

The Democrats’ Green New Deal includes "working towards ending air travel."

By Amy Sherman • February 28, 2019

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stated on February 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton said, "This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half of a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage."

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 26, 2019

Morgan Griffith
stated on February 11, 2019 in a newsletter.:

"Our country has succeeded in reducing greenhouse emissions in previous years."

By Warren Fiske • February 26, 2019

Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 in a State of the State Address:

"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."

By Chris Nichols • February 14, 2019

Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Trump signed a bill "to clean millions of tons of garbage from world’s oceans."

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 9, 2019 in a tweet:

California’s deadly wildfires "would never happen" with "proper Forest Management."

By Chris Nichols • January 9, 2019

Danielle Pletka
stated on November 25, 2018 in in a panel discussion:

"We need to also recognize that we just had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."

By John Kruzel • November 28, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2018 in a tweet:

"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor."

By Chris Nichols • November 12, 2018

Patrick Morrisey
stated on October 13, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Says Joe Manchin "supported Obama and Clinton's campaigns to kill coal jobs."

By Joseph Kennedy • November 5, 2018

Bloggers
stated on October 22, 2018 in a blog post:

"Intensifying Hurricane Willa headed directly toward 10,000 migrant caravan path."

By Miriam Valverde • October 23, 2018

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