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FACT CHECK: Trump’s Actions in Venezuela Will Not Lower Energy Costs At Home
WASHINGTON, DC – Trump has claimed that new access to Venezuelan oil will lower prices, but experts agree that his actions are unlikely to reduce energy costs at home anytime soon.
January 7, 2026
FACT CHECK: Chris Wright Is Wrong. Clean Energy Lowers Costs.
Washington, D.C. – During an interview with CNN, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright doubled down on Trump’s claims that renewable energy sources are a “con job” and a “scam.”
September 25, 2025
FACT CHECK: Clean Energy Lowers Energy Costs
Washington, D.C. – Household utility bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump took office, and instead of lowering costs like he promised, Trump is threatening to send them higher by blocking wind and solar, the cheapest energy sources available. He’s desperate to deflect blame, which even his own Energy Secretary admits will fall on […]
August 20, 2025
Chris Wright is Wrong. The Cost of Climate-Fueled Extreme Weather Is Too High.
Washington, D.C. — Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright is on a full-blown climate-denial media tour, following the release of the DOE’s report that attacks decades of established climate science.
August 11, 2025
Fact Check, Chris Wright Edition: Pollution Is, In Fact, Harmful to Humans
Washington, D.C.– Yesterday, Chris Wright claimed that carbon dioxide and other emissions, which are classified as pollutants harmful to human health, are not harmful to humans. Here are some facts on pollution that may be of interest to Wright, who once drank fracking fluid. Here are the facts:
July 30, 2025
AI to Trump: We’ll Cost More Money Without Clean Energy
Washington, D.C. – Donald Trump is giving a speech on AI today, just weeks after gutting clean energy. So we asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity the same question: How important is clean energy to keeping the costs of AI low? Here’s what they told us. ChatGPT, how important is clean energy to keeping the costs […]
July 28, 2025
FACT CHECK: Trump’s Weird Obsession with Wind Turbines Is Not Rooted in Reality Or the Basic Tenets of Bird Law
Washington, D.C. – This morning, Donald Trump returned to his weird obsession with wind turbines, a well-documented obsession that dates back years. He lacks even a casual understanding of Bird Law. FACT: Trump’s obsession with wind turbines dates back to 2011 – when offshore wind turbines were constructed off the coast of his Scottish golf […]
July 28, 2025
HOMECOMING: JD Vance to Tout Republican Rate Hike That Guts Manufacturing During Return to Ohio
Washington, D.C. – Today, JD Vance returns to his home state of Ohio to tout Donald Trump’s Republican Rate Hike, which will spike energy bills and destroy manufacturing jobs. Vance’s event is the latest stop on his new tour to sell Trump’s historically unpopular bill, a tour he began by encouraging Americans to “take what […]
July 28, 2025
FACT CHECK: Trump Lies About “Unleashing All Forms of Energy” to Power AI
Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump claimed that he was unleashing all forms of energy to power AI - just weeks after his Republican Rate Hike dismantled clean energy, and as his administration blocks clean energy approvals.
July 24, 2025
FACT SHEET: Trump’s Cuts to Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response Leave Texas and the Nation Vulnerable to Extreme Weather
The devastating Fourth of July flash flood in Texas that killed more than 100 people is a stark reminder of how Donald Trump's reckless cuts to weather forecasting and disaster preparedness are leaving Americans vulnerable when they need protection most. As rescue crews continue searching for those missing along the Guadalupe River, experts are warning that Trump's policies – which have gutted the National Weather Service, slashed NOAA funding, and eliminated critical disaster and climate tracking – are making deadly events like this more likely and more severe.
July 10, 2025