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Search results for "How many tons of mineral commodities are consumed each year in the United States to support the standard of living of 300 million citizens"

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Fact-checks (24354)

Joe Manchin stated on October 14, 2018 in an op-ed:
The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them."
By Mary Alice Truitt• December 3, 2018
Alex Epstein stated on January 31, 2023 in a Fox Business segment:
“The whole green energy agenda involves more than doubling 10 types of mining.”
By Andy Nguyen• February 27, 2023
Facebook posts stated on May 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Lumber, gas, wheat, coal and corn cost more in April 2021 "in Joe Biden's America" than they did a year earlier.
By Tom Kertscher• May 27, 2021
TikTok posts stated on September 12, 2023 in a TikTok video:
Hawaii wildfire was intentionally set because there’s “120 million tons of lithium in Maui.”
By Jeff Cercone• September 14, 2023
Cathy McMorris Rodgers stated on March 18, 2021 in a House hearing:
The Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China.”
By Jon Greenberg• March 29, 2021
Bob Gibbs stated on April 18, 2012 in a committee hearing in the House of Representatives:
"Water transportation is the most fuel efficient, least polluting, safest, and least expensive means of moving cargo."
By Peter Krouse• May 28, 2012
America's Natural Gas Alliance stated on November 18, 2009 in a television ad:
The United States has a supply of "more than 100 years of natural gas."
By Catharine Richert• November 18, 2009
Progress Texas stated on September 07, 2012 in a newsletter update:
Says a voter-adopted constitutional amendment "instructed" a state board headed by Jerry Patterson to put $300 million in investment earnings into a fund supporting public school operations.  
By W. Gardner Selby• September 21, 2012
Club for Growth stated on July 25, 2019 in in a TV ad:
Dan McCready backed state legislation that raised consumers "$149 million a year in higher energy costs."
By Elizabeth Thompson• August 8, 2019
Bloggers stated on January 30, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Trump signed a bill "to clean millions of tons of garbage from world’s oceans."  
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 11, 2019
Sherrod Brown stated on March 23, 2012 in a news release:
Says excessive speculation is pushing up oil prices and a recent report estimates it "adds 56 cents to every gallon of gasoline siphoned from the pump."
By Peter Krouse• May 2, 2012
Henry Kissinger stated on September 06, 2014 in an interview on NPR:
"There were fewer civilian casualties in Cambodia than there have been from American drone attacks."
By Jon Greenberg• September 11, 2014
Chris Sununu stated on July 10, 2017 in an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio:
California and New York are "the two biggest polluting states in the country."
By Nick Reid• July 28, 2017
Starbucks stated on May 04, 2017 in a Senate hearing:
"Coffee is the second-most traded commodity after oil."
By Jon Greenberg• May 8, 2017
Earl Blumenauer stated on September 23, 2011 in a House floor speech:
Says "Every year air pollution protections are delayed, another 34,000 people will die prematurely."
By Charles Pope• October 3, 2011
Facebook posts stated on May 14, 2022 in posts on social media:
The United States can’t import baby formula because of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
By Sara Swann• May 24, 2022
Jared Polis stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• May 17, 2024
Chuck Grassley stated on June 28, 2009 in interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
"If the United States moves ahead by itself (on cap-and-trade)... after 30 or 40 years, we're going to reduce CO2 by less than 1 percent."
By Catharine Richert• July 2, 2009
Dan Sullivan stated on March 23, 2022 in a Senate hearing:
In cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the United States is “the leader in the world by far.”
By Jon Greenberg• April 6, 2022
Donald Trump stated on November 30, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."
By Louis Jacobson• December 16, 2015

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