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Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 in a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.:
"The United States is now the No. 1 energy producer in the world. That happened just recently."
Half-True
By Warren Sterling • October 4, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 11, 2018 in press conference:
"Puerto Rico’s electric grid and their electric generating plant was dead before the storms ever hit. It was in very bad shape. It was in bankruptcy. It had no money. It was largely -- you know, it was largely closed."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • September 13, 2018
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
stated on June 13, 2018 in a statement to Bloomberg:
"The science is clear, under President Trump greenhouse gas emissions are down."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2018
Kevin Cramer
Kevin Cramer
stated on May 4, 2018 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
Says Heidi Heitkamp "cast the deciding vote to kill the Congressional Review Act that would have repealed a BLM flaring rule that was designed just for North Dakota."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • May 10, 2018
Tom Wolf
Tom Wolf
stated on March 23, 2018 in Campaign video:
"Pennsylvania (is) the only state in the country not to tax drillers."
Half-True
By Colin Deppen • March 30, 2018
North Carolina Democratic Party
North Carolina Democratic Party
stated on March 27, 2018 in an ad campaign:
NC Republicans "raided $58 million that was supposed to help create jobs for North Carolinians."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • March 27, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 in a tweet:
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 in during Sen. Marco Rubio's speech to Seminole County GOP:
Says Marco Rubio took "three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives" during the 2016 Senate election.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 in an interview with President Donald Trump:
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 in a campaign speech:
Says electric utilities "are trying to fool you into amending your state Constitution in a way that gives them the authority to shut down net metering."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 in a speech:
Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 15, 2016 in a campaign speech in Scranton, Pa. :
Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 27, 2016 in a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio:
"Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy."
Half-True
By Nadia Pflaum • July 1, 2016
Solar Energy Fairness
Solar Energy Fairness
stated on April 13, 2016 in a television ad:
"Big rooftop solar's plan forces Nevada families who don’t have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar."
Half-True
By Riley Snyder • May 13, 2016
Richard Paglia
Richard Paglia
stated on November 1, 2015 in a TV interview:
"We already pay the highest electricity prices in the country here in New England."  
Half-True
By Mark Reynolds • November 12, 2015
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on October 7, 2015 in a speech:
"Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea and they called it smog."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 16, 2015 in a debate:
The Obama administration’s "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on February 24, 2015 in a press release:
President Barack Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline killed "42,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 2, 2015
Scott Surovell
Scott Surovell
stated on February 4, 2015 in a floor speech.:
"When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (President George W.) Bush’s administration."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
John Thune
John Thune
stated on January 4, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
Says President Barack Obama's own administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, "all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment."    
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 4, 2015
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