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Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on December 7, 2018 in Speech on carbon pricing. :
"As a city, we currently use about 4 percent less electricity today than we used in 1989."
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By Elizabeth Gribkoff • December 8, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on September 4, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says he "beat (President Barack) Obama at the Supreme Court, saving coal jobs."
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By Anja Martin • September 20, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 in a Donald Trump rally in Charleston, W.Va.:
Says Joe Manchin "strongly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton after she said, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’"
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By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 7, 2018 in a tweet:
"101 utilities cut rates, credit GOP tax cuts."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2018
Evan Jenkins
Evan Jenkins
stated on April 23, 2018 in a U.S. Senate debate:
"I’ve cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We’ve cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on January 24, 2018 in a tweet:
"No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2017 in a tweet:
"Coal production up 7.8% in past year. Down 31.5% last 10 years. #endingwaroncoal."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 in a White House briefing:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 in a speech:
Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."
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By Chris Nichols • June 2, 2017
James Rockall
James Rockall
stated on May 9, 2017 in a tweet:
"More (people) die from indoor air pollution than from malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined."
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By Smitha Rajan • May 18, 2017
Brad Schneider
Brad Schneider
stated on April 20, 2017 in 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on March 1, 2017 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press Daily":
"USAID put $8 billion up and attracted more than $45 billion in a public-private partnership called Power Africa."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2017
Jeanne Ives
Jeanne Ives
stated on December 1, 2016 in a floor speech:
"Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford."
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By Kevin Hoffman • December 16, 2016
Michael Morell
Michael Morell
stated on September 19, 2016 in an open letter to Donald Trump:
Says Donald Trump has outlined "policies that read like a Kremlin wish list."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 22, 2016
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on August 23, 2016 in a tweet:
North Carolina’s coast "is possibly the best place in (the) U.S. for an offshore windfarm."
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By Will Doran • September 9, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 11, 2016 in a tweet:
Says "President Obama’s proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon."  
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By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
"I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not (Hillary Clinton's) position."
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By Linda Qiu • May 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 4, 2016 in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper:
"The market is making this decision. The market has driven down the cost of coal, so you have companies going bankrupt."
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By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2016
Robby Mook
Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 in 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on November 10, 2015 in a press release:
California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."  
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By Chris Nichols • December 7, 2015
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