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Duey Stroebel
Duey Stroebel
stated on July 30, 2014 in an online video:
Says GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a "compromise vote that cost $788 million" in higher electricity costs.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 10, 2014
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on July 29, 2014 in a campaign ad:
"What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants."
False
By Steve Contorno • August 7, 2014
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on July 29, 2014 in a campaign ad:
"The president's come out with rules that say, 'No new coal-fired power plants.' "
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • August 7, 2014
Lenar Whitney
Lenar Whitney
stated on June 25, 2014 in a YouTube video:
"Global warming is a hoax."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • August 1, 2014
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on July 28, 2014 in an interview on Univision Radio:
"We would create thousands of jobs in Colorado, if the Keystone Pipeline were to be built."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • July 31, 2014
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on July 21, 2014 in a campaign ad:
When the New Hampshire Legislature raised the gasoline tax, gas prices in the state were "skyrocketing."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary:
"There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 6, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 25, 2014 in an op-ed for "USA Today":
"The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs."
False
By Steve Contorno • June 26, 2014
Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America
stated on June 14, 2014 in a documentary:
The proposed Gogebic iron ore mine is "just up the hill" from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore caves along Lake Superior.  
False
By James B. Nelson • June 23, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on May 14, 2014 in a news release.:
Mark Warner’s "record is one of acting against" the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • June 23, 2014
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
stated on June 10, 2014 in a press release:
Says Jeanne Shaheen "voted for a measure that would have amounted to a new national energy tax."
Mostly False
By Jim Haddadin • June 18, 2014
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 19, 2014 in messages on the Internet:
"Solar panels drain the sun’s energy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 11, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate."
False
By Julie Kliegman • May 13, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on May 11, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
The incandescent light bulb "has no effect whatever on the planet."     
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on April 27, 2014 in a TV ad:
Says "Scott Brown’s carrying some big oil baggage" because he "collected over $400,000 in campaign contributions."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • May 1, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on April 27, 2014 in a TV ad:
Says Scott Brown "voted to give oil companies big tax breaks."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • April 30, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 21, 2014 in a segment on 'The Rachel Maddow Show':
"Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed a new law which makes you pay a special fee. It will essentially fine people for the crime of using solar power."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 24, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 21, 2014 in public remarks:
"There are over 100 pipelines between the United States and Canada right now."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 26, 2014
Mark Begich
Mark Begich
stated on March 20, 2014 in a TV ad:
Says he "forced Washington to open up the Arctic Ocean to oil drilling."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • March 24, 2014
Michael Reagan
Michael Reagan
stated on March 6, 2014 in an op-ed on Townhall.com:
Says Ronald Reagan "got the Saudis to flood the market with cheap oil."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 13, 2014
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