GeoLawWatch: Tracking Weather & Climate Legislation

Tracking weather modification, cloud seeding, and geoengineering bills in real time across the US.

Geoengineering Bills by Year

Bill # Details Effective Status
New Mexico (2014 Regular Session)
HB164 Lea & roosevelt weather modification Died in chamber
Last update
Fri 31 Jan 2014
Rhode Island (2014 Regular Session)
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
South Dakota (2014 Regular Session)
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
Texas (2013 Regular Session)
SB671 Relating to the deregulation of weather modification operations. Died in committee
Last update
Mon 25 Feb 2013