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Latest Fact-Checks In Energy

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Ryan Zinke
stated on February 23, 2018 in a panel at the conservative CPAC conference:
“Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it’s $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018
John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 in a Capital Public Radio interview:
Californians pay “the highest electricity bills” in the nation.
False
By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 in a rally in Phoenix:
“We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017
Viral image
stated on August 9, 2017 in a Twitter post:
“Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes.”
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 9, 2017
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
“When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in an interview:
“All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2017
Jim Patterson
stated on April 10, 2017 in a press release:
California will have the “highest gas tax in the nation” once its 12 cent gas tax hike goes into effect.
False
By Chris Nichols • April 11, 2017
Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 in a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
“The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That’s what she said. Go look it up.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017
Scott Pruitt
stated on March 9, 2017 in an interview on CNBC:
Carbon dioxide is not “a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2017
LearnProgress.org
stated on February 8, 2017 in a headline:
Says Donald Trump was “caught investing in (the) Dakota Pipeline before signing it.”
False
By Joshua Gillin • February 16, 2017
Consumers for Smart Solar
stated on October 19, 2016 in a web ad:
“Amendment 1 protects Florida seniors from scams and rip-offs.”
False
By Joshua Gillin • November 3, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate:
“We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent.”
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 11, 2016
Basil Seggos
stated on September 7, 2016 in a response at a legislative hearing on water quality and contamination:
“No fracking waste is being dumped in New York State”
False
By Dan Clark • October 1, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 in a speech in Roanoke, Va.:
Says Hillary Clinton’s energy agenda “will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion”
False
By Linda Qiu • September 27, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2016 in an economic address in Detroit:
“The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost Michigan over 50,000 jobs.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 in a foreign policy speech:
“ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil.”
False
By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2016
Jeff Bridges
stated on March 28, 2016 in a Facebook video:
“Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists.”
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 14, 2016
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.”
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 8, 2015 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:
“We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.”
False
By Nick Reid • January 29, 2016
Lamar Smith
stated on December 6, 2015 in Op-ed column in the San Antonio Express-News:
“The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administration’s Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much as 16 percent per year.”
False
By Filipa Ioannou • December 17, 2015
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