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Evan Jenkins
Evan Jenkins
stated on April 23, 2018 a U.S. Senate debate
"I’ve cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We’ve cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018
Tom Wolf
Tom Wolf
stated on March 23, 2018 Campaign video
"Pennsylvania (is) the only state in the country not to tax drillers."
Half-True
By Colin Deppen • March 30, 2018
North Carolina Democratic Party
North Carolina Democratic Party
stated on March 27, 2018 an ad campaign
NC Republicans "raided $58 million that was supposed to help create jobs for North Carolinians."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • March 27, 2018
Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
stated on February 23, 2018 a panel at the conservative CPAC conference
"Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address
"We are now, very proudly, an exporter of energy to the world."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on January 24, 2018 a tweet
"No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2018
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 a Capital Public Radio interview
Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.
False
By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2017 a tweet
"Coal production up 7.8% in past year. Down 31.5% last 10 years. #endingwaroncoal."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 a tweet
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 during Sen. Marco Rubio's speech to Seminole County GOP
Says Marco Rubio took "three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives" during the 2016 Senate election.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally in Phoenix
"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 9, 2017 a Twitter post
"Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes."
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 9, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview with President Donald Trump
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 4, 2017 a tweet
"Gas prices are the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • July 6, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Scott Pruitt
Scott Pruitt
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2017
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 a speech
Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • June 2, 2017
James Rockall
James Rockall
stated on May 9, 2017 a tweet
"More (people) die from indoor air pollution than from malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined."
Mostly True
By Smitha Rajan • May 18, 2017
Brad Schneider
Brad Schneider
stated on April 20, 2017 an op-ed
"More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2017
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