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Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 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.’"

By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on June 7, 2018 a tweet

"101 utilities cut rates, credit GOP tax cuts."

By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2018

Evan Jenkins
stated on April 23, 2018 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."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018

Kamala Harris
stated on January 24, 2018 a tweet

"No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2017 a tweet

"Coal production up 7.8% in past year. Down 31.5% last 10 years. #endingwaroncoal."

By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2017

Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing

France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017

Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 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."

By Chris Nichols • June 2, 2017

James Rockall
stated on May 9, 2017 a tweet

"More (people) die from indoor air pollution than from malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined."

By Smitha Rajan • May 18, 2017

Brad Schneider
stated on April 20, 2017 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."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2017

David Perdue
stated on March 1, 2017 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."

By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2017

Jeanne Ives
stated on December 1, 2016 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."

By Kevin Hoffman • December 16, 2016

Michael Morell
stated on September 19, 2016 an open letter to Donald Trump

Says Donald Trump has outlined "policies that read like a Kremlin wish list."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 22, 2016

Duane Hall
stated on August 23, 2016 a tweet

North Carolina’s coast "is possibly the best place in (the) U.S. for an offshore windfarm."

By Will Doran • September 9, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on August 11, 2016 a tweet

Says "President Obama’s proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon."

August 26, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 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."

By Linda Qiu • May 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 4, 2016 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."

By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016

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

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

By Chris Nichols • December 7, 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."

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."

By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015

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