Overview

• Administrator Lee Zeldin published comprehensive EPA resources on contrails, cloud seeding and solar geoengineering to promote transparency after widespread public concerns.
• Rainmaker Technology Corporation seeded clouds with silver iodide near Runge, Texas, on July 2, but CEO Augustus Doricko and independent experts say the operation was too limited to influence the July 4 flash floods.
• Climatologists attribute the Central Texas deluge to remnants of Tropical Storm Barry and local atmospheric factors, noting cloud seeding typically boosts precipitation by at most around ten percent.
• Viral social media posts and endorsements by figures such as Michael Flynn and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely linked weather modification to the deadly floods, fueling conspiracy theories.
• Rep. Greene introduced federal legislation to ban the injection or dispersion of chemicals for weather or climate alteration, following state-level weather modification programs active in at least nine states.