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Florida Passes Bill To Ban, Criminalize Geoengineering

The bill, which makes it a third-degree felony to release any chemical, substance or apparatus into Florida’s atmosphere to affect the weather or climate, has cleared both the House and the Senate and awaits Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature.

The Florida House of Representatives last week passed a bill to ban and criminalize geoengineering and weather modification, Newsweek reported.

The bill makes it a third-degree felony to release any chemical, substance or apparatus into Florida’s atmosphere to affect the weather or climate.

It imposes a penalty of up to $100,000 for any person or corporation and up to $5,000 and five years in prison for an aircraft controller or pilot involved in such releases.

It also requires Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection to develop protocols to investigate reports of geoengineering and directs the department to send the reports to other state agencies, including the health department, when appropriate.

The bill has cleared both the House and the Senate and awaits Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature.

“There is a lot of unauthorized activity that is currently not regulated, both at a federal and a state level, and this is where we wanted to start,” Sen. Ileana Garcia, who introduced the bill, told members of the Senate.

GreenMedInfo’s Sayer Ji praised the bill on his Substack. “Florida has drawn a bright line in the sky: It will not allow corporate interests, climate interventionists, or covert operations to tamper with its atmosphere or pollute its environment.”

Since the bill was introduced, the Florida Legislature has received more than 100,000 emails demanding action on geoengineering, Ji reported.

Health Freedom advocacy organizations, including Stand for Health Freedom supported the bill, arguing that such practices “endanger human health and safety and the environment; threaten air, water, soil, and wildlife resources; disrupt agricultural operations; and potentially interfere with aviation, state security, and the economy of the Commonwealth.”

Rep. Kevin Steele introduced the bill in the House. Neither of the bill’s sponsors immediately responded to The Defender’s request for comment.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/477/

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/news/florida-passes-bill-to-ban-criminalize-geoengineering