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The US federal government has not issued a single, comprehensive proposal to regulate geoengineering; instead, multiple federal agencies are reviewing authorities, funding research, and laying groundw...
Yes — federal agencies and Congress have funded and directed research on geoengineering in recent years. Congress in 2022 directed OSTP with NOAA, NSF and DOE to develop a five‑year plan on “solar and...
Yes. Federal and state agencies, as well as scientific bodies, have openly acknowledged and documented —most commonly cloud seeding for precipitation enhancement—and federal law requires reporting of ...
Federal law today creates a reporting-and-tracking regime for weather modification but stops short of a comprehensive federal licensing or permitting system: must be notified of planned activities and...
State-level bans on are proliferating—, and have enacted measures and many other states have proposed bills—but those bans sit atop a complex federal landscape where has not enacted a geoengineering-s...
Federal coordination on experimental geoengineering field tests has been built around monitoring, reporting, and research rather than a unified permit regime: NOAA acts as the primary reporting and ob...
Congress has not introduced or passed a new federal bill solely dedicated to authorizing or banning geoengineering (also called solar radiation modification) in the most recent legislative sessions; i...
remains a patchwork: some international instruments and multilateral fora have imposed de facto moratoria or restrictive guidance, while national and subnational authorities are moving unevenly—passin...
No U.S. state has, in the reporting provided, enacted stand‑alone laws that expressly authorize outdoor solar geoengineering research or pilot deployments while simultaneously banning full deployment;...
Available sources show the U.S. federal government has not approved or conducted any outdoor solar radiation management (SRM) field experiments since 2020; federal agencies state they are not engaged ...
A patchwork of national agencies, dedicated forecasting centers, coordinating bodies, and laws now underpins and mitigation, but capabilities remain uneven and dependent on aging sensors and cross‑sec...
is diffuse: , , and other science agencies play roles in tracking or funding studies, while statutes like the (WMRA) and the provide legal hooks—but critics say the patchwork leaves transparency gaps ...
Reporting identifies at least four high-profile AI or tech figures whom President Trump has placed into key science and AI-related roles — David Sacks, Sriram Krishnan, Michael Kratsios, and Lynne Par...
The documents provided for review contain no reporting or data about a program named “S2S” or “SPEXS,” so it is not possible from these sources to list which U.S. states participate or to enumerate ea...
Legitimate geoengineering research today is limited, heavily contested, and split between cautious academic modeling and a small but growing set of experimental efforts, some backed by private startup...
President Biden’s policy decisions were guided by a blend of traditional cabinet secretaries—who ran agencies and executed policy—and a tight circle of White House senior staff and advisors who coordi...
Yes — many records about White House renovations created or held by federal agencies are subject to FOIA, but White House-originated and certain “Presidential” records are treated differently and may ...
There is no evidence in the available sources that a U.S. government “stopped” the Cancer Moonshot because it would interfere with radiation or chemotherapy; in fact, the Cancer Moonshot was launched ...
Policy, leadership and appropriations repeatedly reshaped different “Moonshot” efforts by changing priorities, funding flows, and organizational form — from the U.S. Cancer Moonshot’s federal reboots,...
Look for medical-device regulatory clearances (FDA 510(k), De Novo, PMA) for implanted or therapeutic neurotechnology and regionally equivalent marks such as the EU MDR/CE conformity; these pathways d...