“Adam Laxalt fought an investigation into the oil industry, then they funded his campaign.”
What PolitiFact found
Laxalt opposed efforts to investigate whether oil companies made fraudulent disclosures about climate change and helped Exxon fight one probe. A PAC largely backed by people employed in oil ran campaign ads for Laxalt.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Catherine Cortez Masto (U.S. senator, D-Nev.) made this claim around 17 June 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 August 2022, 56 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Catherine Cortez Masto has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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