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Search results for "Around 60 companies are responsible for 80 of all global carbon emissions"

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Fact-checks (21202)

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
League of Conservation Voters stated on August 14, 2013 in a TV ad:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson voted to let oil and gas companies emit "unlimited carbon pollution into our air"
By Tom Kertscher• August 29, 2013
Wayne Christian stated on January 05, 2021 in a letter:
Says that the Paris Climate Accord will cost the U.S. economy "6.5 million jobs and $3 trillion in economic growth by 2040."
By Brandon Mulder• January 21, 2021
Elizabeth Warren stated on September 04, 2019 in a CNN town hall on climate change:
"70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries."  
By Jon Greenberg• September 6, 2019
John Loughlin stated on October 19, 2010 in a WPRI/Providence Journal debate:
Tells David Cicilline, "94 percent of the carbon emissions which you so want to get rid of are caused by nature."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• October 28, 2010
Glenn Grothman stated on February 03, 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
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
John McCain stated on May 13, 2008 in North Bend, Wash.:
"They (Clinton and Obama) have never to my knowledge been involved in legislation nor hearings nor engagement on this issue (climate change)."
By Robert Farley• May 14, 2008
Viral image stated on January 22, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“NOAA makes it official… CO2 warming is a hoax.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 24, 2023
Eugene Robinson stated on December 01, 2009 in a Washington Post column:
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
By Catharine Richert• December 9, 2009
Todd Gilbert stated on February 12, 2020 in a floor speech.:
“America’s carbon emissions are being reduced at a rate far higher than any country in the world.”
By Warren Fiske• February 24, 2020
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
John Boccieri stated on August 18, 2010 in an interview:
"I don’t understand what Republicans are doing against this. It was their idea. John McCain introduced cap and trade legislation three times."
By Sabrina Eaton• September 13, 2010
Newt Gingrich stated on December 03, 2011 in a Republican presidential candidate forum:
"I never favored cap and trade."
By Molly Moorhead• December 7, 2011
Rick Perry stated on August 14, 2019 in a speech:
"The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions."
By Madlin Mekelburg• August 27, 2019
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
Sean Casten stated on August 18, 2019 in a campaign email:
"Most climate scientists agree that we only have less than a decade to turn things around or else we’ll be stuck with a 'worst case scenario' including rising sea levels, devastating droughts, and worsening famines."
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller• September 1, 2019
Environmental Justice League of R.I stated on January 12, 2016 in a report:
"In reality, gas produced by fracking is worse for the climate than coal."  
By Mark Reynolds• January 24, 2016
Facebook posts stated on December 26, 2019 in an image on Facebook:
"China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution."
By Amy Sherman• January 2, 2020
Joe Barton stated on February 12, 2013 in in reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.:
Says U.S. greenhouse gas "emissions are at 20-year lows."
By W. Gardner Selby• April 1, 2013

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Clean slate? ‘Carbon capture’ of CO2 emissions seen as technology that’s a climate solution and risk

By Tom Kertscher• June 14, 2023

US versus China: Which nation is doing more to address climate change?

By Tom Kertscher• March 27, 2023

Fact-checking Donald Trump's statement withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement

By Jon Greenberg• June 1, 2017

The Earth has rapidly warmed over the past century. Can politics slow it?

By Daniel Funke• October 28, 2019

It's EPA vs. U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate change

By Steve Contorno• May 30, 2014

Oil companies talk about low-carbon projects. How much do they spend on them?

By Jon Greenberg• November 8, 2021

Where 2020 Democrats stand on carbon tax, other climate change policies (updated)

By Sophie Austin• August 29, 2019

Where 2020 Democrats stand on carbon tax, other climate change policies

By Sophie Austin• July 25, 2019

Your guide to the cap-and-trade estimates

By Catharine Richert• June 25, 2009

Billions of dollars are being invested in pricey ‘green’ hydrogen. Is it a viable climate solution?

By Tom Kertscher• June 12, 2023

McCain's nuclear argument

By Robert Farley• June 9, 2008

CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, but a viral video ignores that it’s a major climate threat

By Tom Kertscher• April 21, 2023

Cap and trade legislation stalls in the Senate

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Lukas Pleva• July 26, 2010

Fact-checking Obama's rules on carbon and coal plants

By Steve Contorno• August 14, 2014

10 fact-checks about climate change

By Angie Drobnic Holan• September 23, 2014

A look back at our climate-change fact-checks

By Louis Jacobson• June 25, 2013

A look back at our climate-change fact-checks

By Louis Jacobson• June 25, 2013

Red light on ‘greenwashing’? US regulatory agency takes fresh look at deceptive climate claims

By Tom Kertscher• July 17, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy says Iowa can’t use eminent domain to build CO2 pipelines. That remains to be seen.

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• December 21, 2023

Fact-checking Donald Trump on the Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders unity platform

By Sophie Austin, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde• July 19, 2020