Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on December 8, 2015 in an interview with NPR:

"Mike Morell testified and told Congress that the reason Obama has not bombed ISIS' oil fields is they're concerned about global warming."

By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 in an interview with Bill Maher:

The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "That number was pulled out of thin air."

By Linda Qiu • September 2, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 in an interview with Bill Maher.:

"The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent don’t agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate is caused by CO2."

By Linda Qiu • September 1, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on April 19, 2015 in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation:

"I can tell you with certainty (cap and trade) would have a devastating impact on our economy."

By Lauren Carroll • April 23, 2015

Mike Huebsch
stated on April 7, 2015 in testimony before a state Senate committee:

"The elimination of essentially every automobile would be offset by one volcano exploding."

By James B. Nelson • April 17, 2015

Don Beyer
stated on March 4, 2015 in an op-ed.:

"More than 7,000 Americans lost their lives to climate change-fueled events last year."

By Warren Fiske • March 23, 2015

Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 6, 2014 in a campaign ad:

"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell."

By Steve Contorno • October 8, 2014

Shelley Moore Capito
stated on July 29, 2014 in a campaign ad:

"What (the Obama administration is) going to come out with in the next several months is you're not even going to be able to burn coal very limitedly in the existing plants."

By Steve Contorno • August 7, 2014

John Boehner
stated on June 25, 2014 in an op-ed for "USA Today":

"The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs."

By Steve Contorno • June 26, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on June 2, 2014 in a TV interview.:

The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill "244,000 jobs a year" and cost average families "$1,200 a year."

By Warren Fiske • June 9, 2014

John Boehner
stated on June 2, 2014 in a post on his website:

New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year."

By Steve Contorno • June 2, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on May 11, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate."

By Julie Kliegman • May 13, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on July 27, 2013 in an interview with the 'New York Times':

The "most realistic estimates" for jobs created by Keystone XL are "maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline."

By Jon Greenberg • July 31, 2013

Alan Grayson
stated on May 21, 2013 in a news release:

A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline "is an earmark" under House rules.

By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2013

Josh Mandel
stated on October 31, 2012 in a radio ad:

Says that Sherrod Brown is an "Obama rubber stamp" for "supporting the job-killing cap and trade plan."

By Tom Feran • November 1, 2012

American Energy Alliance
stated on March 27, 2012 in a television ad:

Gas prices have doubled because "Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2012

Mike Dovilla
stated on March 13, 2012 in a letter to the editor:

Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant "we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump."

By Tom Feran • April 17, 2012

Johnny Isakson
stated on February 23, 2012 in a speech:

The Keystone oil pipeline "would employ 20,000 people in the United States."

By Willoughby Mariano • April 11, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 14, 2012 in a video ad airing in Michigan:

Says Mitt Romney supports cap and trade.

By Molly Moorhead • February 16, 2012

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