Bill aims to ban weather modification activities

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. One of the bills introduced for the coming Florida legislative session seeks to prohibit weather modification activities in the state. Senate Bill 56, which Republican Senator Ileana Garcia, of South Florida, filed on Nov. 20, would prohibit "the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather, or the intensity of sunlight." Were the bill to become law, any person or corporation found to be committing a weather modification activity would be charged with a second-degree