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Lamar Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
September 21, 2015
Barry DuVal
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
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
Robert Henneke
Robert Henneke
stated on June 23, 2015 an oped column
"Obama’s Clean Power Plan ... eliminates coal-fired power plants."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 24, 2015
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 24, 2015 a speech on the House floor
"Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 7, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 7, 2015 a visit to Deerfield, NH
"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • June 5, 2015
Mike Huebsch
Mike Huebsch
stated on April 7, 2015 testimony before a state Senate committee
"The elimination of essentially every automobile would be offset by one volcano exploding."
False
By James B. Nelson • April 17, 2015
Americans for Prosperity: Florida
Americans for Prosperity: Florida
stated on March 10, 2015 a news release
Recent solar energy policies in Georgia "have resulted in rate hikes and did not result in solar becoming any more economically viable."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • March 24, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 7, 2015 a speech
On support for ethanol mandates
Half Flip
By James B. Nelson • March 13, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech.
"America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world."
True
By Sean Gorman • March 2, 2015
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