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New Jersey Sierra Club
New Jersey Sierra Club
stated on September 6, 2011 a press release
Says New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • September 19, 2011
Vincent Barrella
Vincent Barrella
stated on August 22, 2011 a column published on NJ.com
"Point Pleasant Beach does not own its beaches; they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as Jenkinson’s"
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • September 5, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2011 a campaign event
"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2011
Kevin Coughlin
Kevin Coughlin
stated on August 18, 2011 a campaign speech
Says there’s not "much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • August 31, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 17, 2011 a campaign stop in New Hampshire
Scientists are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 22, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with the 'Miami Herald.'
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011
Tim Grendell
Tim Grendell
stated on June 28, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate
"You might be surprised to know that 137 billion gallons flows (into Lake Erie) every day. You might be surprised to know that only 86.3 billion gallons flow out. ... Leaving us a net surplus of approximately 50 billion gallons a day."
False
By Aaron Marshall • August 8, 2011
Wisconsin Sierra Club
Wisconsin Sierra Club
stated on July 23, 2011 in campaign fliers
Says state Sen. Alberta Darling is "allowing mercury to harm our children" because she voted against an electronics recycling bill.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 5, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on July 24, 2011 a discussion at a town hall meeting
"One of the biggest polluters in our country is the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District."
False
August 3, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate
"Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 19, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate
"State agencies have not identified one single instance where groundwater has been damaged due to hydraulic fracking."  
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • July 14, 2011
Jeff Tittel
Jeff Tittel
stated on June 13, 2011 testimony to the General Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities committee
"One of the reasons that Budweiser stayed in New Jersey is the money they got from RGGI to put solar on their roof to save on their energy costs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 4, 2011
Republican Party of Virginia
Republican Party of Virginia
stated on June 16, 2011 a blog post.
Phil Puckett "voted no on sending the EPA a message that they’ve gone too far not once, but twice."
Pants on Fire!
By Wes Hester • June 24, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on June 14, 2011 a blog post.
On subsidies for ethanol production.
Full Flop
By Jacob Geiger • June 22, 2011
Doug Whitsett
Doug Whitsett
stated on June 3, 2011 a legislative hearing
The Medford Water Commission was fined $279,000 for dumping plain drinking water into a stream.
Half-True
By Janie Har • June 18, 2011
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on June 13, 2011 an appearance on a talk show
"It’s just crazy that the government will ... make it illegal to use the old [incandescent] bulbs."
Pants on Fire!
By Richard Salit • June 16, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
New Jersey Sierra Club
New Jersey Sierra Club
stated on May 17, 2011 a press release
"Every year the state loses 8,000-10,000 acres of land in bear country."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • June 10, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 a web news story
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
June 9, 2011
Jeff Kruse
Jeff Kruse
stated on May 25, 2011 on the Oregon Senate floor
Michigan and Massachusetts raised their bottle deposit and "could no longer afford the program because the redemptions were so high there was no profit in there."
Pants on Fire!
By Ian K. Kullgren • June 6, 2011
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