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Forecast the Facts
stated on June 2, 2015 a statement on a web page.

Says Scott Walker runs a state government that bans "employees from talking about climate change."

By Sarah Hauer • June 16, 2015

Allen West
stated on March 19, 2015 a post on his website

"EPA wants to regulate … the family BBQ."

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015

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

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

By Warren Fiske • March 23, 2015

Bob Seger
stated on October 12, 2014 an interview

The proposed mine in northern Wisconsin would be built without any government oversight, and will be nine miles long.

By James B. Nelson • November 10, 2014

Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 6, 2014 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 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

Kenneth Block
stated on July 15, 2014 a radio debate

"The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200."

By Karen Lee Ziner • July 27, 2014

Kendall Jones
stated on July 2, 2014 a Facebook post

"Without the financial resources provided by hunters to protect habitat and stop poachers, there would be no infrastructure for wildlife management."

By Linda Qiu • July 11, 2014

Al Jazeera America
stated on June 14, 2014 a documentary

The proposed Gogebic iron ore mine is "just up the hill" from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore caves along Lake Superior.

By James B. Nelson • June 23, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on June 2, 2014 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 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 an interview on ABC's "This Week"

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

By Julie Kliegman • May 13, 2014

Rick Scott
stated on March 4, 2014 his State of the State speech

"We have invested record funding in protecting our environment."

By Amy Sherman • March 6, 2014

Rick Scott
stated on January 21, 2014 an event with employees from the Department of Environmental Protection

"Recently, Florida has successfully reduced the environmental permitting time down to just two days."

By Amy Sherman • January 27, 2014

Bob Kincaid
stated on January 19, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry"

"Most of West Virginia is still owned, in excess of 90 percent, by out-of-state interests."

By Jon Greenberg • January 21, 2014

X posts
stated on October 5, 2013 a tweet

"Obama has jumped the shark and ordered the ocean closed!"

By Amy Sherman • October 7, 2013

James O'Neil
stated on September 1, 2013 an appearance on "10 News Conference."

"Wind power is the most undependable form of renewable energy."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 8, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on July 27, 2013 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

Miami-Dade County
stated on July 9, 2013 a county budget document

Miami-Dade has "the nation’s highest-rated tap water."

By Amy Sherman • July 12, 2013

Alan Grayson
stated on May 21, 2013 a news release

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

By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2013

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