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Latest Fact-Checks In Environment

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 26, 2017 in a tweet
"Obama is in Texas serving meals!"
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • August 28, 2017
Chris Sununu
Chris Sununu
stated on July 10, 2017 an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio
California and New York are "the two biggest polluting states in the country."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • July 28, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech on the House floor
"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on June 2, 2017 Fox News The Five show
"Every single year that there's an increase (in temperature) it's within the margin of error -- meaning it isn't increasing."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2017
Jesse Kremer
Jesse Kremer
stated on May 11, 2017 a legislative hearing
"The Earth is 6,000 years old, that’s a fact."  
False
June 8, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 5, 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
Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson
stated on May 22, 2017 a press release
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget "cuts funds for local tree mortality efforts from $52.7 million to just $2 million."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • May 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 an interview with 'The Economist'
The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 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
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on April 20, 2017 a tweet
"Trump looking to open up E Coast & new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP"
True
By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 a town hall with CEOs
"I've won awards on environmental protection."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 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
Will Herring
Will Herring
stated on March 6, 2017 a San Antonio Express-News news story
"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2017
Social Media
Social Media
stated on March 6, 2017 social media posts
"It's important to pay attention to the Russian spy drama, but let's not ignore the fact that the following (10) bills have been introduced" in the House.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 2, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"We've repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years using the Congressional Review Act -- three regulations that were going to cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 2, 2017
Betsy DeVos
Betsy DeVos
stated on January 17, 2017 her Senate confirmation hearing
"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2017
Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch
stated on December 10, 2016 a campaign letter
Says Rex Tillerson "sued to keep a fracking project out of his backyard."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2016
James Quintero
James Quintero
stated on October 10, 2016 a panel discussion at SXSW Eco
Says that when San Francisco banned plastic grocery bags, "you saw the number of instances of people going to the ER with things like salmonella and other related illnesses" spike.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 23, 2016
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