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Committee advances bill prohibiting intentional solar geoengineering activities while exempting licensed cloud seeding
Summary
Committee members discussed a draft that would ban intentional large‑scale atmospheric dispersals intended to modify weather or block sunlight, create a reporting portal, and exempt responsible cloud‑seeding programs; members debated enforcement burdens and scope before approving the draft as a committee bill.
Sen. Don Winterton introduced draft legislation that would prohibit the intentional release or dispersion of substances into Utah’s atmosphere for the purpose of modifying weather, blocking sunlight or otherwise performing large-scale geoengineering within state boundaries. He and agency staff emphasized the bill was written to preserve authorized cloud‑seeding programs.
Jonathan Jennings, meteorologist for the Division of Water…
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