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Facebook posts
stated on July 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:

You can't pour water on flames from an electric car battery because “water makes lithium burn."

By Yacob Reyes • July 29, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on July 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:

"Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone."

By Andy Nguyen • July 27, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on July 10, 2022 in an Instagram post:

"If every person on earth just recycled, stopped using plastic straws, and drove an electric car, 100 corporations would still produce 70% of total global emissions."

By Ellie Borst • July 22, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Images of Plymouth Rock prove sea levels are not rising.

By Madison Czopek • July 20, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Drought is a lie” designed to limit farming, reduce the food supply and ultimately control Americans.

By Madison Czopek • July 19, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 16, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Studies show plastics can help combat climate change.

By Samantha Putterman • May 26, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2022 in a Facebook post:

The U.S. government’s inaction over buffalo killing that harmed Native American populations in the 1800s shows it is now “is creating food shortages” so that Americans are more “dependent on the government.”

By Madison Czopek • May 19, 2022
Suburban Virginia Republican Coalition
stated on April 30, 2022 in a seminar.:

“CO2 is not a pollutant.”

By Warren Fiske • May 12, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 24, 2022 in a photo:

Says photo shows "one of Tesla's lithium supply mines where entire mountains are eliminated."

By Monique Curet • May 11, 2022
Sean Ryan
stated on March 3, 2022 in an op-ed:

“New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”

By Elizabeth Egan • 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.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2022
Glenn Grothman
stated on February 3, 2022 in Twitter:

Says President Joe Biden "is trying to send taxpayer dollars to manufacturers overseas that do not abide by the same (carbon emission) standards we do at home."

By D.L. Davis • March 11, 2022
Glenn Grothman
stated on February 3, 2022 in Twitter:

"The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not."

By D.L. Davis • March 11, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on February 21, 2022 in an article:

"Bill Gates hatches 'horribly stupid' plan to block out the sun"

By Monique Curet • February 25, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on January 27, 2022 in a post:

"Since 2000, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy have been spraying the entire United States sky with the toxic brew of chemicals and other biologic agents."

By Monique Curet • February 2, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Images show how climate change destroyed the Greenland ice sheet and harmed a polar bear from 2009 to 2019.

By Gabrielle Settles • January 19, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on January 4, 2022 in a post:

Electric vehicles would not have fared well in the Virginia snowstorm traffic jam.

By Jeff Cercone • January 7, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on December 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Polar bears have increased 400% in 45 years; whales are nearly fully recovered; extinctions are down 90% past century. Koalas are doing fine. If we could ban wind turbines we could save 85,000 birds of prey/yr in US alone."

By Gabrielle Settles • December 23, 2021
Joe Manchin
stated on November 16, 2021 in a Senate hearing:

The United States had 589 coal-fired plants 10 years ago, and “we're down to 504. … We are the only nation that has reduced our reliance (on) coal energy."

By Duncan Slade • December 10, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on November 27, 2021 in a post:

Electric vehicles are more likely to fail in traffic jams.

By Monique Curet • December 9, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2021 in Facebook posts:

A chart shows China and India are leading in per capita carbon dioxide emissions.

By Becca Schimmel • December 2, 2021
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
Facebook posts
stated on October 27, 2021 in post on Facebook:

Keystone Pipeline was blocked by Obama on Warren Buffett’s behalf.

By Becca Schimmel • November 18, 2021
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2021 in an article:

"Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth” in an “unedited 2010 TED Talk video"

By Gabrielle Settles • October 11, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on September 27, 2021 in social media posts:

“Were you aware the $3.5 Trillion Human Infrastructure package includes an animal agriculture tax of $2,600‼️ per head of cattle? $500 for swine!!!"

By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
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!"

By Jason Asenso • August 27, 2021
Jill Karofsky
stated on July 8, 2021 in Legal opinion:

“A farm with 2,500 dairy cattle is similar in waste load to a city of 411,000 people.”

By Laura Schulte • July 20, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on July 11, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows an electric car charging station that uses "12 gallons of diesel fuel per hour, and it takes three hours to fully charge a car to get 200 miles. That's 36 gallons for 200 miles. 5.6 mpg."

By Andy Nguyen • July 19, 2021
Rodney Davis
stated on June 21, 2021 in a press release:

“Prairie State power plant is the cleanest coal-fired power plant in the nation.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 27, 2021
Chuck Grassley
stated on June 7, 2021 in an op-ed:

The Biden administration “ignores the negative environmental impact created by lithium mining.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 2021