Overview

• On July 5, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill in the U.S. House that would classify weather modification and geoengineering as federal felonies.
• The legislation, cosponsored by Representative Tim Burchett, mirrors Florida’s Senate Bill 56 and follows bans enacted in Florida and Louisiana in June.
• Under the proposed law, individuals found injecting or dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere to alter weather would face penalties of $100,000 and up to five years in prison.
• Cloud seeding, an 80-year-old technology used for inducing rain or snow, would be prohibited if the federal measure becomes law.
• Scientists and critics warn the bill conflates established weather practices with chemtrail conspiracy theories, and party-line divisions are emerging as it heads to committee.