Last year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received a fact check from an energy expert in the middle of a congressional hearing. President of the Western Energy Alliance Kathleen Sgamma corrected a false claim touted by AOC suggesting that federal land was used for a substantial portion of oil and gas production.

“I just want to start off by correcting something the ranking member said in her opening statement. She claimed that oil and gas production on federal lands is responsible for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance explained to the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. “That’s a complete falsehood,” she maintained.