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The Weather Modification Reporting Act requires non‑federal actors to notify NOAA
State-run weather modification in the United States today is largely a patchwork of cloud‑seeding programs administered by state agencies, local water districts and multi‑county authorities—examples i...
Since 2020 state-level activity has shifted from sporadic curiosity to an organized wave of proposals that either ban or tightly regulate and traditional weather modification, with passing the first s...
The United States has had and continues to have technologies that can modify weather at local to regional scales—most notably cloud seeding, a practice dating to the 1940s and used in the U.S. for dec...
operate in a fragmented legal gray zone: no single federal statute expressly authorizes or comprehensively regulates outdoor SRM testing, but a patchwork of existing laws and agency authorities—most n...
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 ...