“So this shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.”
Greg Abbott
Governor (R). in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. Claim dated 16 Feb 2021.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Texas relies almost entirely on fossil fuels — and didn’t prepare its power grid for extreme cold.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Greg Abbott (Governor (R)) made this claim around 16 February 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 February 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Greg Abbott has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/debunking-the-conservative-texas-renewable-…
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