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Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on April 26, 2012 a TV ad
Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as  "tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • May 3, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on March 29, 2012 a news release
Sherrod Brown opposed blocking a new EPA emissions rule, "despite acknowledging that the EPA's cap-and-trade regulations are ‘burdensome’ and could harm economic growth in Ohio."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • April 5, 2012
Lars Larson
Lars Larson
stated on March 20, 2012 an online post
"Every time the weight of that vehicle is reduced by a hundred pounds, your chances of dying are going to go up by about 5 percent. Peel three hundred pounds off – you’re 15 percent more likely to die in that car."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • March 29, 2012
Pat Stevens
Pat Stevens
stated on January 24, 2012 a news article
The Atlanta area’s water planning district "is now the national leader in conservation."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 6, 2012
Penny Bernard Schaber
Penny Bernard Schaber
stated on January 27, 2012 a legislative hearing
A proposed mine in Wisconsin is "about two-thirds the size of Lake Winnebago."
Mostly False
January 30, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 13, 2011 a Senate hearing
"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • January 8, 2012
Richard Franklin III
Richard Franklin III
stated on November 29, 2011 an address to the Central Texas Democratic Forum
Says a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • December 22, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate
"In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill, Molly Moorhead • December 16, 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
Matt Wingard
Matt Wingard
stated on May 4, 2011 a House floor session
Increasing the bottle deposit to 10 cents on a case of water bottles could literally double the price of that product in the store.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • May 13, 2011
Robert Hurt
Robert Hurt
stated on March 25, 2011 a newsletter.
A cap-and-trade bill would "destroy over 50,000 jobs in Virginia."
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • April 12, 2011
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on February 18, 2011 an e-mail newsletter and House floor speech.
"Not even expensive bottled water, like Perrier and Evian, are of good enough quality to pump out of mines in Southwest Virginia, according to the EPA regulation."
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • March 22, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 14, 2011 a news conference
Says an EPA permit "languished" under Strickland but his new EPA director got it done in two days.
Mostly False
By Aaron Marshall • February 7, 2011
DeKalb County
DeKalb County
stated on December 23, 2010 its website
"The Greenest County in America."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • January 3, 2011
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 14, 2010 a campaign news release and platform document
Says Gov. Jim Doyle and the DNR have not put hunters first and mismanaged the deer herd; as a result "the deer population has dwindled."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • October 24, 2010
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on July 13, 2010 a campaign ad
Ron Johnson is "willing to hand over the Great Lakes to the oil companies."
Mostly False
By Cary Spivak • September 3, 2010
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 11, 2010 campaign news releases in the wake of sewage dumping
"Since being elected, (Tom Barrett) has dumped 8.2 billion gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan."
Mostly False
By Lee Bergquist • September 3, 2010
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 14, 2010 a campaign commercial
Russ Feingold "voted against the law that protected our lakes" and "was the only Great Lakes senator to vote no."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2010
George LeMieux
George LeMieux
stated on June 16, 2010 an interview on CNN and a posting on Twitter
The White House has "refused" international help in dealing with the oil spill.
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 16, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2010 a press release
Says the EPA "outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2010
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