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Anna Kooiman
Anna Kooiman
stated on November 6, 2014 a segment on "Fox & Friends"
"There would be tens of thousands of jobs created" if President Barack Obama approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • November 11, 2014
Bob Seger
Bob Seger
stated on October 12, 2014 an interview
The proposed mine in northern Wisconsin would be built without any government oversight, and will be nine miles long.
False
By James B. Nelson • November 10, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 6, 2014 a campaign ad
"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell."
False
By Steve Contorno • October 8, 2014
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on September 16, 2014 a campaign ad
Says Tom Steyer is a "California billionaire who stands to profit by blocking Keystone" and "is spending big to help" Bruce Braley.  
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • September 19, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 22, 2014 a TV ad
Rick Scott took $200,000 from a family that leased land for drilling "and now he is trying to hide from it."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on July 11, 2014 a Facebook photo post
Says Ted Cruz "was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies America’s national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 8, 2014 TV ad
Says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that "profited off pollution."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 15, 2014
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on July 29, 2014 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
Lenar Whitney
Lenar Whitney
stated on June 25, 2014 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 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
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on his radio show
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on July 15, 2014 a radio debate
"The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200."
False
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 27, 2014
John DePetro
John DePetro
stated on July 7, 2014 a talk radio comment
"Although the governor doubled the beach fees . . . all the money, as we found out, is all going to an out-of-state company. The state isn't even getting the money for that."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 14, 2014
Kendall Jones
Kendall Jones
stated on July 2, 2014 a Facebook post
"Without the financial resources provided by hunters to protect habitat and stop poachers, there would be no infrastructure for wildlife management."
False
By Linda Qiu • July 11, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 27, 2014 her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention
Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 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
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on June 19, 2014 a television ad
"Congressman (Tom) Cotton is the only Arkansan in Congress -- Democrat or Republican -- to vote against disaster relief five times."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2014
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on June 23, 2014 a TV ad
Says Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst "promises to shut down the Department of Education and abolish the EPA."
True
By Molly O'Connor • June 27, 2014
Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy
stated on June 24, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox and Friends."
"NASA scientists fudged the numbers to make 1998 the hottest year to overstate the extent of global warming."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2014
Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America
stated on June 14, 2014 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
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