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WV SB699

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/5/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jack Woodrum

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits all geoengineering activities within or over West Virginia, including weather modification, cloud seeding, stratospheric aerosol injection, and solar radiation modification

  • Requires the Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner to investigate credible reports of geoengineering and issue cease-and-desist orders to violators

  • Mandates quarterly public notices encouraging citizens to monitor, document, and report suspected geoengineering activities with photographs, video, lab tests, and other evidence

  • Establishes civil penalties up to $25,000 per day for violations, with a minimum $500,000 civil penalty for knowingly engaging in geoengineering

  • Creates felony charges for knowing violations, punishable by fines up to $25,000 per day and imprisonment of 1-5 years

Legislative Description

Protecting environment and humans from geo-engineering experiments

Environment

Last Action

To Energy, Industry, and Mining

3/5/2025

Committee Referrals

Energy, Industry and Mining3/5/2025

Full Bill Text

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