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James Fishback stated on February 26, 2026 in a speech:

Artificial intelligence data centers "drive up electric bills by 30 or 40%" and "suck up 500,000 gallons of water a day.”

By Samantha Putterman• March 4, 2026

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

Facebook posts stated on January 13, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."

By Louis Jacobson• January 15, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency stated on June 13, 2018 in a statement to Bloomberg:

"The science is clear, under President Trump greenhouse gas emissions are down."

By Louis Jacobson• June 18, 2018

Chris Wright stated on April 19, 2026 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Solar and wind have not reached “3% of global energy.”

By Louis Jacobson• April 22, 2026

Michele Bachmann stated on August 27, 2011 in a campaign event:

"The United States is the No. 1 country in the world for energy resources. … We are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy."

By Louis Jacobson• August 31, 2011

AmeriPAC stated on May 16, 2011 in a fundraising letter:

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are "toxic" and "not environmentally friendly."

By Robert Farley• May 24, 2011

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

Donald Trump stated on May 08, 2025 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”

By Madison Czopek, Louis Jacobson• May 8, 2025

Donald Trump stated on December 09, 2025 in public events:

The U.S. has received promises of investments totaling $18 trillion to $22 trillion since January.

By Louis Jacobson, Nick Karmia• December 9, 2025

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

Credo Action stated on August 27, 2015 in a YouTube video:

The Obama administration is "proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obama's Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030."

By Lauren Carroll• September 1, 2015

Donald Trump stated on January 21, 2026 in remarks:

In artificial intelligence, “We're leading China by a lot.”

By Loreben Tuquero• January 29, 2026

Roy Blunt stated on January 15, 2016 in a news release:

"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"

By Mary McIntyre• March 17, 2016

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."

By Andy Nguyen• May 11, 2021

Josh Fox stated on January 19, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry":

"We had 6,000 oil and gas spills in 2012" with "more oil and gas spreading in the United States than the entire Exxon Valdez spill."

By Katie Sanders• January 23, 2014

Robert Henneke stated on June 23, 2015 in an oped column:

"Obama’s Clean Power Plan ... eliminates coal-fired power plants."

By W. Gardner Selby• July 24, 2015

Sheldon Whitehouse stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing:

"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."

By Alex Kuffner• January 8, 2012

Ernest Moniz stated on August 26, 2013 in a question and answer session at Columbia University:

"We are about halfway" to the president’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and "about half of that is because of the substitution of natural gas for coal in the power sector."

By Jon Greenberg• August 30, 2013

Eric Hovde stated on July 02, 2012 in a news release:

The United States can immediately tap a domestic energy resource of "more than 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, six times more than Saudi Arabia."

By Dave Umhoefer• July 12, 2012

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