Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
Biden’s Numbers, 2024 Pre-Election Update
Issues: carbon emissions
Wind Energy’s Key Environmental Advantage? Low Emissions
Q: Are wind farms harmful to the environment?
A: Like all energy sources, wind farms have some negative environmental impacts. But getting energy from wind farms results in dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions than getting it from fossil fuels.
Electric Vehicles Contribute Fewer Emissions Than Gasoline-Powered Cars Over Their Lifetimes
Q: Are electric cars really better for the environment than gasoline-powered cars over their lifetimes?
A: Yes. Electric vehicles typically release fewer greenhouse gas emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles during their life cycles, even after accounting for the increased energy required to make their batteries. And their carbon footprints are expected to get smaller in the near future.
Biden’s Numbers, January 2024 Update
Our latest quarterly look at various statistical measures during Biden’s presidency.
Biden’s Numbers, October 2023 Update
Statistical measures of the economy, immigration, oil production and more since Biden became president.
Biden’s Numbers, July 2023 Update
Our latest update of what’s happened in the U.S. under Biden’s presidency.
FactChecking Haley’s CNN Town Hall
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley — a former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump’s administration — made a few false and misleading statements in a June 4 town hall on CNN.
Biden’s Numbers, April Update
A quarterly update of statistical measures of the president’s time in office.
Biden’s Numbers, January 2023 Update
Here’s how the United States has fared since President Joe Biden took office two years ago.
Biden’s Numbers, October 2022 Update
Various measures of what has happened in the country since the president’s inauguration.