Representative Monty Fritts (R-D32-Kingston) and Senator Steve Southerland (R-D9-Morristown) have introduced legislation to prohibit the federal government from engaging in geoengineering experimentation.
Specifically, the legislation would prohibit activities involving the intentional release or dispersing of chemicals or chemical substances into the Tennessee atmosphere.
HB2063 is on the calendar to be heard in House Agriculture Tuesday, March 5th and SB2691 will be heard in Senate Agriculture Wednesday, March 6th. The language is not yet posted but we obtained a copy here.
Similar legislation has been entered across the country in six other states. Neighboring state Kentucky introduced HB506, and SB217, Rhode Island introduced The Clean Air Preservation Act, New Hampshire entered The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act ,Illinois entered a Weather Modification Act, South Dakota entered legislation and Connecticut entered SB302.
The sense of urgency to take legislative action to prohibit geoengineering such as SRM (solar radiation modification), SAI (stratospheric aerosol injection) and other weather modification activities is in response to federal SRM and SAI funding and a June 2023 White House report titled, Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and Initial Research Governance Framework Related to Solar Radiation Modification.
The document states, “The Biden-Harris Administration strongly affirms that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world, particularly those countries and communities most vulnerable to its adverse effects.
Immediate, sustained, and effective reductions of global greenhouse gas emissions are required to slow the pace of climate change and reduce the risk of crossing critical and potentially catastrophic thresholds in the global climate system.Â
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