When they have to make false statements to make a point, they didn’t actually have a point in the first place.
The whole idea behind that drivel is to gin up opposition to a process most people know little or nothing about, and to impede, in any way possible, industry in the US.
The Soviets invested (via the KGB) in environmental organizations in the 1970s with the hopeful goal of having a negative impact on Western Industry, and that investment has paid them better dividends than the investments made in their armed forces.