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Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 a Medium post:

"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016

Jeff Bridges
stated on March 28, 2016 a Facebook video:

"Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 14, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on March 12, 2016 remarks in Dallas at a Democratic National Committee reception:

"Right now, here in Texas, wind power is already cheaper than dirty fossil fuels."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • April 12, 2016

Roy Blunt
stated on January 15, 2016 a news release:

"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"

Mostly False

By Mary McIntyre • March 17, 2016

Daniel Greenfield
stated on July 30, 2015 an article on the Frontpage website:

"Obama spent $7 billion to bring electricity to Africa, failed miserably."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • February 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 8, 2015 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:

"We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."

False

By Nick Reid • January 29, 2016

Lamar Smith
stated on December 6, 2015 Op-ed column in the San Antonio Express-News:

"The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administration’s Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much as 16 percent per year."

False

By Filipa Ioannou • December 17, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 30, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 8, 2015 an interview with NPR:

"Mike Morell testified and told Congress that the reason Obama has not bombed ISIS' oil fields is they're concerned about global warming."

False

By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2015

Kevin de León
stated on November 10, 2015 a press release:

California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • December 7, 2015

Richard Paglia
stated on November 1, 2015 a TV interview:

"We already pay the highest electricity prices in the country here in New England."

Half-True

By Mark Reynolds • November 12, 2015

Tim Echols
stated on October 26, 2015 an opinion piece in a trade magazine:

"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."

Mostly True

By April Hunt • November 10, 2015

Kevin de León
stated on October 7, 2015 a speech:

"No city in the state, no state in this nation, for that matter the entire world, has adopted (clean energy) targets more ambitious in scale."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015

Jerry Brown
stated on October 7, 2015 a speech:

"Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea and they called it smog."

Half-True

By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 comments during the CNBC debate.:

Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich "got lucky with a thing called fracking," which "is why Ohio is doing well."

False

By Linda Qiu • November 2, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 29, 2015 his energy plan:

"Since 2008, U.S. crude oil output has increased by over 80 percent, an increase of over 4 million barrels a day. That is the fastest increase in U.S. history."

True

By Joshua Gillin • October 2, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on September 16, 2015 a debate:

The Obama administration’s "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015

Barry DuVal
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview:

"We're the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • September 17, 2015

Israel O'Quinn
stated on August 10, 2015 a speech.:

On unemployment rates: "We have counties in Southwest Virginia that are well into double digits and some that are pushing 20 percent."

False

By Warren Fiske • August 17, 2015

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