Geoengineering Bills by Year
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New Mexico (2014 Regular Session)
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| HB164 | Lea & roosevelt weather modification | Died in chamber | ||
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Last update Fri 31 Jan 2014 |
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Rhode Island (2014 Regular Session)
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| H7655 | Geoengineering | Held for further study | ||
| Rhode Island House Bill 7655, introduced in 2014, would have required anyone seeking to conduct geoengineering activities including solar radiation management or atmospheric carbon removal to obtain permission from the state environmental director following public hearings, with violations punishable by fines up to five hundred dollars and imprisonment up to ninety days. |
Last update Thu 3 Apr 2014 |
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South Dakota (2014 Regular Session)
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| HB1064 | Repeal certain obsolete provisions and references concerning weather modification programs. | Passed | ||
| A decade before South Dakota considered banning weather modification entirely, the legislature quietly removed the authority for counties to levy dedicated taxes for cloud seeding programs—not prohibiting the activity, but eliminating one funding pathway as obsolete. |
Last update Mon 3 Mar 2014 |
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Texas (2013 Regular Session)
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| SB671 | Relating to the deregulation of weather modification operations. | Died in committee | ||
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Last update Mon 25 Feb 2013 |
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