“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
Nancy Pelosi
House Speaker. in a statement. Claim dated 16 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
An EPA science advisory board raised issues with the EPA’s approach and recommended doing a new assessment, but that recommendation wasn’t binding.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nancy Pelosi (House Speaker) made this claim around 16 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 April 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Nancy Pelosi has 17 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.