Biden’s Earth Day Exaggerations
Posted on AllSides April 29th, 2022
From The Left
FACT CHECK
On Earth Day, President Joe Biden touted his administration’s environmental initiatives, but his rhetoric made efforts to reduce methane emissions and drinking water contamination sound more expansive than they actually are.
In his April 22 remarks, Biden went too far in saying more than 100 countries had agreed to “eliminate methane.” The Global Methane Pledge is to reduce methane emissions, not eliminate them.
Biden: We slashed methane and brought over 100 nations together when I was at the big meeting we had in Europe, hundred nations around the globe. … There’s two...