“70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries.”
Elizabeth Warren
Democratic senator from Massachusetts. In CNN's climate change town hall.. Claim dated 4 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
Elizabeth Warren (Democratic senator from Massachusetts) made this claim around 4 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 September 2019, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Elizabeth Warren has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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