Overview

• The bill, filed July 5, would make it a felony to inject, release or disperse substances into the atmosphere to alter weather, climate or sunlight.
• It mirrors Florida’s SB56 by proposing fines up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to five years for geoengineering offenses.
• Now awaiting committee review in the House, the proposal has prompted similar geoengineering ban legislation in Louisiana, New York, Arizona and other states.
• NOAA and leading fact-checkers have confirmed that the only commercial weather modification is cloud seeding and that large-scale hurricane steering or chemtrail spraying is impossible.
• Observers warn that Greene’s reliance on debunked chemtrail and weather-control conspiracies illustrates the growing role of fringe theories in legislative debates.