Fact Verifications for Card #4 “Climate and Environment” are listed below for your reference. These links will take you outside this website and are not owned by us, so please note that if they are not working we will do our best to fix the links.
Biden-Harris Team
Sixty-nine percent of the country: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/
Re Inflation Reduction Act:
Private investment: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/inflation-reduction-act-investments-to-go-to-underserved-communities.html
Jobs expected: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/how-many-jobs-is-the-inflation-reduction-act-spurring-a-lot
Quotation and good overview: https://www.wri.org/insights/biden-administration-tracking-climate-action-progress
Another good overview: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-inflation-reduction-act-heres-whats-in-it
For individual households: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/policy/inflation-reduction-act
Re CHIPS act:
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/chips-science-act-summary/
Re Infrastructure Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/infrastructure-bill-explained/index.html
Re solar & green bank for disadvantaged communities:
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/04/biden-climate-green-bank#
Re IRA funds to red states:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/business/manufacturing-jobs-biden/index.html
Re reversing Trump’s actions & new rules to reduce pollution:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/climate/biden-climate-nepa-trump.html
https://grist.org/project/accountability/trump-rollbacks-biden-climate-tracker/
https://www.dailyclimate.org/nearly-all-states-embrace-epa-s-climate-initiative-2667509619.html
Re public lands protection:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/18/biden-public-lands-conservation-rule/
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/biden-oil-mining-alaska-restrictions-00153219
Mr. Trump
Plan for potential win/Project 2025 (also last item on card): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Nuclear, not global, warming: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6324633135112
False and misleading claims:
https://www.edfaction.org/sites/default/files/Trump_%20Administration_Anti-Environment_Record_Report_0.pdf (most comprehensive, from an environmental organization, but full of links to their sources)
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-launches-presidential-run-with-climate-fallacies/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/politics/fact-check-trump-sea-levels-ocean-climate-change/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/climate/trump-clean-energy-fact-check.html
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-launches-presidential-run-with-climate-fallacies/
Muzzling scientists, etc.:
Rollbacks, repeals, etc.:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html (excellent & comprehensive tally)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/climate-environment/trump-climate-environment-protections/ (also excellent & comprehensive)
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01092020/candidate-profile-donald-trump-climate-change-election-2020/ (very good article, and unlimited reading)
Cut 25,000 pages quotation: https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse45/status/1283497848202502145
Eliminating predecessor’s actions quotation: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01092020/candidate-profile-donald-trump-climate-change-election-2020/ (Same source as noted above re rollbacks)
Solar tariffs:
2024 section:
Undo/weaken IRA:
WaPo quotation on Mar-a-Lago fundraiser:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/17/trump-wind-power-oil-executives/
AP News quotation: https://apnews.com/article/trump-policies-agenda-election-2024-second-term-d656d8f08629a8da14a65c4075545e0f
On wind energy
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/08/trump-wind-power-crusade-00140