“Sen. Joe Manchin’s “support for the (Inflation Reduction Act) could cost West Virginia 100,000 fossil fuel jobs.”
What PolitiFact found
Estimates suggest there aren’t even 100,000 fossil fuel jobs in West Virginia today, meaning the notion that so many jobs would be lost in the state is mathematically impossible.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
One Nation (Conservative group) made this claim around 4 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 October 2023, 50 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
One Nation has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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