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stated on August 9, 2017 in 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
stated on July 23, 2017 in 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
stated on July 12, 2017 in 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
stated on July 4, 2017 in 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
stated on June 27, 2017 in 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
stated on June 4, 2017 in 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
stated on May 31, 2017 in 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
stated on May 9, 2017 in 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
stated on April 20, 2017 in 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

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in an interview:

"All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel."

False

By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2017

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 27, 2017 in an interview in the Press-Republican newspaper in Plattsburgh:

The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America."

Mostly False

By Dan Clark • April 16, 2017

Jim Patterson
stated on April 10, 2017 in a press release:

California will have the "highest gas tax in the nation" once its 12 cent gas tax hike goes into effect.

False

By Chris Nichols • April 11, 2017

Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 in a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."

False

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017

David Perdue
stated on March 1, 2017 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press Daily":

"USAID put $8 billion up and attracted more than $45 billion in a public-private partnership called Power Africa."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2017

Scott Pruitt
stated on March 9, 2017 in an interview on CNBC:

Carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."

False

By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2017

LearnProgress.org
stated on February 8, 2017 in a headline:

Says Donald Trump was "caught investing in (the) Dakota Pipeline before signing it."

False

By Joshua Gillin • February 16, 2017

Sherrod Brown
stated on February 2, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:

Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2017

Rex Tillerson
stated on January 11, 2017 in a Senate confirmation hearing:

"I have never lobbied against sanctions personally... to my knowledge, Exxon never directly lobbied against sanctions.

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2017

Jeanne Ives
stated on December 1, 2016 in a floor speech:

"Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford."

Mostly True

By Kevin Hoffman • December 16, 2016

Consumers for Smart Solar
stated on October 19, 2016 in a web ad:

"Amendment 1 protects Florida seniors from scams and rip-offs."

False

By Joshua Gillin • November 3, 2016

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