Latest Fact-Checks In Environment

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stated on May 12, 2020 a headline in a Facebook post
“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 16, 2020 a statement
“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2020 a Facebook post
Says to leave objects in the sun to avoid contracting the coronavirus.
False
March 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 a campaign ad
Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden “just announced on CNN he will completely shut down drilling for oil and natural gas on day one of his administration.”
Mostly False
March 20, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 a Facebook post
“Sen. Bernie Sanders led the effort to dump Vermont's nuclear waste on a poor Latino community in Texas.”
Half-True
March 13, 2020
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on March 5, 2020 a mass email
On key issues including taxes, health care, the Green New Deal, abortion, and guns, there is “no daylight between” Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020
Todd Gilbert
Todd Gilbert
stated on February 12, 2020 a floor speech.
“America’s carbon emissions are being reduced at a rate far higher than any country in the world.”
False
By Warren Fiske • February 24, 2020
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on February 12, 2020 committee hearing remarks
“We’ve also seen in the time that he’s (Donald Trump) been president, an increase in carbon emissions going absolutely in the wrong way.”
Mostly True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 16, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 a tweet
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 12, 2020 a post on Facebook
The typical anglerfish is seven feet long.
Pants on Fire!
By Emily Venezky • January 24, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
Mostly True
By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Young America's Foundation
Young America's Foundation
stated on January 2, 2020 a Facebook post
"FACT: Less than 1% of the trash in the ocean is from the United States."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2019 a Facebook post
"That’s 5,615 projected coal-powered plants in just 8 countries. The USA has 15 - building 0 more."  
False
By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2020 a post on Facebook
An image shows animals burning in the Australia wildfires   
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 26, 2019 an image on Facebook
"China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution."
False
By Amy Sherman • January 2, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on December 15, 2019 an interview with the Atlantic
Says the Potomac River "has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • December 18, 2019
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on December 1, 2019 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"In Bakersfield, where there’s a lot of oil drilling going on, there’s more solar jobs now in Bakersfield and around that area than there are oil jobs."  
False
By Chris Nichols • December 6, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 a press conference
China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."
Mostly True
By Minh Do • December 4, 2019
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