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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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
There is no single, comprehensive international treaty that specifically governs airplane-based solar geoengineering experiments; instead governance in reporting, environmental review, and aviation sa...
Public access to records about White House interior restoration is complicated: the central White House Office and some Executive Office of the President (EOP) components are exempt from FOIA, while a...
Federal agencies publicly deny any secret, large-scale programs to modify climate or spray harmful agents; NOAA explicitly debunks claims that it “modifies the weather” or runs solar‑geoengineering at...
The National Park Service (NPS) does not have legal authority to unilaterally halt construction projects undertaken by the White House or the Executive Office on the basis of environmental concerns; ....