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stated on April 11, 2019 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 a Facebook post

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

April 2, 2019

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stated on March 28, 2019 a Facebook post

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

April 1, 2019

Scott Beck
stated on March 26, 2019 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 a Facebook post

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

March 27, 2019

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."

By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019

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.

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019

Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 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."

March 12, 2019

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."

March 8, 2019

Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2019 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 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."

February 26, 2019

Morgan Griffith
stated on February 11, 2019 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 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 a Facebook post

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

February 11, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 9, 2019 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 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 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 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 a blog post

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

By Miriam Valverde • October 23, 2018

Alexander Strenger
stated on October 1, 2018 response cited in an interactive voter guide

Says 60 percent of Austin’s "waterways are found to be contaminated with fecal matter and deemed unsafe to swim."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2018

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