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Latest Fact-Checks In Environment

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Donald Trump
stated on July 8, 2026 in remarks at a press conference:
The AI industry needs “more energy than the entire country produces right now … In fact some people say almost double.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2026
Liz Krueger
stated on March 5, 2026 in an op-ed:
Proposed data centers in New York state would use “approximately double the energy usage of all households in the state combined.”
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola, Ryan Lombardi • May 7, 2026
Social Media
stated on January 20, 2026 in posts on social media:
Trees can explode if temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • January 26, 2026
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 28, 2024 in a press conference:
The proposal to put golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks “was something that was leaked. … a lot of that stuff was half-baked and was not ready for prime time.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Jesse James
stated on May 13, 2024 in News conference:
In Wisconsin, “a legislative committee cannot release funding.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • August 27, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on May 20, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“NYC mayor plans to track and limit meat and dairy.”
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • May 25, 2023
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 in a tweet:
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met “with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban,” which “has ties to the” Chinese Communist Party.
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola, Mary McNaughton • March 9, 2023
Citizens Against Government Waste
stated on August 31, 2022 in a Facebook ad:
“More than half of the $739 billion tax increase (in the Inflation Reduction Act) will go to wasteful Green New Deal programs like tree equity, ‘clean’ garbage trucks, and studying cow farts.”
Mostly False
By Jessica Riley, Sierra Worden • October 25, 2022
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 2, 2022 in an interview with CNN:
Lee County, Florida, wasn’t “even in the cone” of Hurricane Ian 72 hours before landfall.
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • October 4, 2022
Ron Johnson
stated on August 23, 2022 in Twitter:
“Democrats’ radical green energy policies caused record gas prices. “
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • September 16, 2022
Sean Ryan
stated on March 3, 2022 in an op-ed:
“New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”
Mostly False
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 29, 2022
Bill O'Reilly
stated on March 15, 2022 in a video on his website:
“As soon as Biden took office, he eliminated all subsidies for fossil fuels.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“FDA approval means nothing when you realize the FDA also approves pesticides in our food!”
Mostly False
By Jason Asenso • August 27, 2021
Viral image
stated on April 29, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as running a petrol car for eight years.”
Mostly False
By Andy Nguyen • May 11, 2021
Survival International
stated on April 22, 2021 in a website press release:
With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 7, 2021
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2020 in an article:
Video from 2019 shows Kamala Harris “caught in a major lie” about fracking during the 2020 vice presidential debate.
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 12, 2020
Paul Junge
stated on June 10, 2020 in a campaign website:
“Even so-called moderate Democrats like Joe Biden have endorsed a ban on fracking, which would eliminate 516,000 Michigan jobs and reduce the state’s gross domestic product by $159 billion over five years.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • June 19, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2020 in 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
By Tom Kertscher • March 20, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 in 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
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
An image shows animals burning in the Australia wildfires   
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2020
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