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Barry DuVal
Barry DuVal
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview
"We're the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations."
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By Sean Gorman • September 17, 2015
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 24, 2015 a speech on the House floor
"Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 7, 2015
Center for Western Priorities
Center for Western Priorities
stated on February 5, 2015 a post on the organization's website
"Oil companies can obtain an acre of public land for less than the price of a Big Mac."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address
"America is No. 1 in wind power."
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By Joshua Gillin • January 21, 2015
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 20, 2015 the Republican response to the State of the Union address
"A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 a speech in Knoxville, Tenn.
"We’ve doubled the production of clean energy."
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By Joshua Gillin • January 20, 2015
Floridians for Solar Choice
Floridians for Solar Choice
stated on January 14, 2015 a statement on a website
"Currently, Florida is one of only five states in the nation that prohibit citizens from buying electricity from companies that will put solar panels on your home or business."
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By Amy Sherman • January 16, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 an op-ed in the "New York Times"
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014
Duey Stroebel
Duey Stroebel
stated on July 30, 2014 an online video
Says GOP primary opponents Glenn Grothman and Joe Leibham cast a "compromise vote that cost $788 million" in higher electricity costs.
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 10, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on April 27, 2014 a TV ad
Says Scott Brown "voted to give oil companies big tax breaks."
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By Julie Kliegman • April 30, 2014
Mark Begich
Mark Begich
stated on March 20, 2014 a TV ad
Says he "forced Washington to open up the Arctic Ocean to oil drilling."
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By Julie Kliegman • March 24, 2014
Josh Fox
Josh Fox
stated on January 19, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry"
"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012" with "more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill."
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By Katie Sanders • January 23, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2014 a Saturday radio address
"Thanks in part to our all-of-the-above strategy for American energy," the United States generates "more natural gas than anybody."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2014
Texans for Reliable Power
Texans for Reliable Power
stated on January 9, 2014 an advertisement
"Texas is experiencing the fastest population growth in the country," adding "more than 1,000 people a day."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 18, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
"We’re the Sunshine State, and we’re hardly doing any solar energy production."
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By Rochelle Koff • December 3, 2013
Jeffrey Grybowski
Jeffrey Grybowski
stated on August 4, 2013 a television interview
Offshore wind power is "significantly less expensive than solar energy."
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By Gregory Smith • August 31, 2013
Ernest Moniz
Ernest Moniz
stated on August 26, 2013 a question and answer session at Columbia University
"We are about halfway" to the president’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and "about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
Ron Shipman
Ron Shipman
stated on June 10, 2013 a meeting
Says Georgia Power customers pay 10 percent to 15 percent below the national average for electricity.
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By Eric Stirgus • June 24, 2013
Abel Collins
Abel Collins
stated on June 2, 2013 an interview on WJAR-TV's "10 News Conference."
"RIPTA has really some of the fullest buses for its transit agency size around the country."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 9, 2013
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