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EPA Debuts Online Geoengineering Hub as Cloud Seeding Flood Theories Persist

EPA launched a public website detailing contrails and geoengineering science to debunk conspiracy theories that blamed recent cloud seeding for the Texas floods.

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HUNT, TEXAS - JULY 6: Search and rescue workers search near debris looking for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas with multiple fatalities reported. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Overview

  • The contrails and geoengineering resource explains how condensation trails form naturally and clarifies that no federal program is secretly dispersing chemicals into the upper atmosphere.
  • Rainmaker Technology’s CEO Augustus Doricko and independent meteorologists confirm the company’s July 2 cloud seeding near Runge, Texas, did not contribute to the July 4 flooding.
  • Climatologists estimate cloud seeding can boost precipitation by at most around ten percent and attribute the deadly Texas floods to remnants of Tropical Storm Barry and prevailing atmospheric conditions.
  • EPA documents show nine states operate regulated weather modification programs, and historical military projects like Operation Popeye and Project Stormfury failed to meaningfully alter large-scale storms.
  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and legislators in several states have introduced bills to prohibit or criminalize the intentional release of chemicals for weather or climate manipulation.