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Jeremy Symons

Principal, Symons Public Affairs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeremy Symons is a climate and energy policy strategist who previously worked at the U.S. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation and held executive roles at the Environmental Defense Fund. He is cited in national media for policy research analyzing the climate and economic fallout of U.S. liquefied natural gas export infrastructure.

8statements → 8claims → 6claims resolved → 83%fully supported → 3.38/5average certainty → 3.12/5average debate potential →

5 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 predictions · 4 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jeremy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Cumulative US LNG emissions could exceed the footprint of 1,000 coal plants
“If you add up all the emissions from what's in operation, all the emissions from what's under construction, all the emissions from what is being proposed beyond that, we could be talking about the emission footprint of about a thousand, actually more than a th…”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 39:00 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Jeremy Symons on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jeremy Symons said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Cumulative US LNG emissions could exceed the footprint of 1,000 coal plants
“If you add up all the emissions from what's in operation, all the emissions from what's under construction, all the emissions from what is being proposed beyond that, we could be talking about the emission footprint of about a thousand, actually more than a th…”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 39:00 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Prediction Not checkable as stated
US emissions with LNG exports could surpass 2005 levels by 2030
“We could actually be looking at being above 2005 emission levels by 20 30 and beyond when you count in the export emissions that we're producing.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 39:49 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Prediction Held up
Pending project approvals could quadruple US LNG export capacity
“There's a whole wave of new proposals Coming after that that, if this administration approves, could even quadruple LNG from where we are today.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 3:45 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Prediction Not checkable as stated
LNG operators will actively undermine clean energy investment for decades
“These are projects that are going to take years to build and once they're built, they rely on streams of demand and markets for decades in order to make them profitable. And so they're going to be creating those markets. They're going to be doing everything th…”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 10:18 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Assertion Supported
The DOE does not disclose GHG emissions in LNG project reviews
“They really don't do a project by project analysis. They do a project by project opinion, but they don't actually tell you what the greenhouse gas emissions are.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 38:53 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Prediction Partly held up
US LNG exports are expected to double again in three years
“And just in the last three years, we've had a doubling of LNG exports, and the amount already under construction is expected to approve, is expected to double again in the next three years, how much LNG.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 3:24 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Assertion Supported
Existing capacity fully satisfies Europe's gas demand without new projects
“We've learned that even with existing capacities, the market has been able to fully satisfy EU's gas needs after they got off Russian gas.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 18:32 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
Assertion Supported
The IEA warns of an LNG glut if new facilities are built
“The International Energy Agency is now warning that there's an LNG glut if we continue to build these facilities.”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 19:06 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’ Dec 18, 2023 14m
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