“West Virginia is poised to “receive $25M for 160 orphaned well clean-up projects across the state.”
What PolitiFact found
Documents and news releases confirm that the Interior Department has authorized $25 million under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as an initial grant for capping orphan wells.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Manchin (U.S. Senator, D-W.Va.) made this claim around 26 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 November 2022, 76 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Joe Manchin has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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