“China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States.”
Jim Justice
Governor of West Virginia. a press conference. Claim dated 10 Jun 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Jim Justice (Governor of West Virginia) made this claim around 10 June 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 December 2019, 177 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Jim Justice has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
Where the claim appeared
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