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Kevin Cramer
Kevin Cramer
stated on May 4, 2018 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Says Heidi Heitkamp "cast the deciding vote to kill the Congressional Review Act that would have repealed a BLM flaring rule that was designed just for North Dakota."
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By Manuela Tobias • May 10, 2018
Tom Wolf
Tom Wolf
stated on March 23, 2018 Campaign video
"Pennsylvania (is) the only state in the country not to tax drillers."
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By Colin Deppen • March 30, 2018
North Carolina Democratic Party
North Carolina Democratic Party
stated on March 27, 2018 an ad campaign
NC Republicans "raided $58 million that was supposed to help create jobs for North Carolinians."
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By Paul Specht • March 27, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 a tweet
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 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.
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By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 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)."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 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."
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By Joshua Gillin • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 a speech
Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 15, 2016 a campaign speech in Scranton, Pa.
Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 27, 2016 a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
"Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy."
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By Nadia Pflaum • July 1, 2016
Solar Energy Fairness
Solar Energy Fairness
stated on April 13, 2016 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."
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By Riley Snyder • May 13, 2016
Richard Paglia
Richard Paglia
stated on November 1, 2015 a TV interview
"We already pay the highest electricity prices in the country here in New England."  
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By Mark Reynolds • November 12, 2015
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on October 7, 2015 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."
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By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 16, 2015 a debate
The Obama administration’s "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."  
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September 21, 2015
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on February 24, 2015 a press release
President Barack Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline killed "42,000 jobs."
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 2, 2015
Scott Surovell
Scott Surovell
stated on February 4, 2015 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."
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By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
John Thune
John Thune
stated on January 4, 2015 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."    
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By Jon Greenberg • January 4, 2015
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace
stated on November 16, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, has blocked any vote on the Keystone pipeline for years."
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By Lauren Carroll • November 16, 2014
Friends of India Point Park
Friends of India Point Park
stated on October 31, 2014 a web site
"Proximity to high-voltage power lines lowers property values by as much as 30 percent."
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By Alex Kuffner • November 16, 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."
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By Amy Sherman • August 15, 2014
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