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Lisa Murkowski
stated on January 20, 2025 in an X post:

"Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 15, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money."

By Laura Schulte • June 14, 2024
Brad Holyman-Sigal
stated on February 26, 2024 in a press release:

“Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.”

By Jefrey Canova • March 24, 2024
Rebuild by Design
stated on March 1, 2023 in a report:

“Every single county in New York has experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021.”

By Cameron Carr • March 29, 2023
Mandela Barnes
stated on July 17, 2022 in Debate:

“We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.”

By Kelly Smits • August 9, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 in Panel discussion:

“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.

By Laura Schulte • November 30, 2021
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 in Facebook post:

The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
Chris Larson
stated on October 26, 2020 in Twitter:

"In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much."

By D.L. Davis • December 4, 2020
Paula Jean Swearengin
stated on September 10, 2020 in a tweet:

“West Virginia is near last in the U.S.” rankings of education, clean drinking water, and child mortality.

By Morgan Akers • November 6, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 in a headline in a Facebook post:

“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”

By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in 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.

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020
Jan Schakowsky
stated on February 12, 2020 in 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.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 16, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 in a tweet:

“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 in 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."

By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 in a press conference:

China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."

By Minh Do • December 4, 2019
Xavier Becerra
stated on August 26, 2019 in a news conference:

"Every time we go to court," against the Trump administration, "for the most part, we win."

By Chris Nichols • September 25, 2019
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 in a cable TV news interview.:

"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism."

By Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in in an interview:

"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."

By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 in a U.S. House hearing:

"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019
Jay Inslee
stated on February 20, 2019 in an interview:

"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."

By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2019
Patrick Morrisey
stated on September 4, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Says he "beat (President Barack) Obama at the Supreme Court, saving coal jobs."

By Anja Martin • September 20, 2018
Florida Democratic Party
stated on August 5, 2018 in a tweet:

Says Rick Scott "cut $700 million from water management."

By Lucia Geng • August 14, 2018
Bill Nelson
stated on June 21, 2018 in an ad:

Says he "actually wrote the bipartisan law that makes it illegal to drill off Florida’s coast."

By Allison Graves • June 29, 2018
Evan Jenkins
stated on April 23, 2018 in a U.S. Senate debate:

"I’ve cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We’ve cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018
Kamala Harris
stated on January 24, 2018 in a tweet:

"No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2018
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."

By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Brad Schneider
stated on April 20, 2017 in an op-ed:

"More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2017
Will Herring
stated on March 6, 2017 in a San Antonio Express-News news story:

"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2017
Social Media
stated on March 6, 2017 in social media posts:

"It's important to pay attention to the Russian spy drama, but let's not ignore the fact that the following (10) bills have been introduced" in the House.

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2017
Food & Water Watch
stated on December 10, 2016 in a campaign letter:

Says Rex Tillerson "sued to keep a fracking project out of his backyard."

By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2016

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