Atmospheric geoengineering prohibition.

25LSO-0247
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0247
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0208

Atmospheric geoengineering prohibition.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Tarver, Brady, Campbell, K, Heiner and Rodriguez-Williams and Senator(s) Ide, McKeown and Pearson

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; providing legislative findings; prohibiting atmospheric geoengineering as specified; requiring testing; providing penalties; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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(a)

The legislature finds that:

(i)

The federal government, its agencies and other entities acting on behalf of the federal government have conducted or will conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally disbursing chemicals and other substances into the atmosphere. These geoengineering experiments may be occurring within the state of Wyoming;

(ii)

The risks to human health and environmental safety from broad
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scale geoengineering are currently not well understood;

(iii)

The Wyoming department of environmental quality is responsible for monitoring air, land and water quality, including regulating emissions into the air, land and water within Wyoming to ensure the safety of the public while planning the development, use, reclamation, preservation and enhancement of the air, land and water resources of the state;

(iv)

It is the intent of the legislature to protect the public health and welfare of Wyoming residents while allowing all authorized activities permitted under state law.

Section 2.

W.S. 35
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2201 is created to read:

ARTICLE 22
GEOENGINEERING

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2201.

Atmospheric engineering prohibited; testing required; retaliation prohibited.

(a)

No person shall intentionally inject, release or disperse by any means any chemicals, chemical compounds, apparatus or other substances within Wyoming into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting or changing temperature, weather or the intensity of the sunlight.

(b)

The department shall test the air quality at sites subject to geoengineering or upon receiving a report of a potential violation of subsection (a) of this section. Testing under this subsection shall, if possible, utilize transmission electron microscopy and shall determine total metals concentration in precipitation.

(c)

No person or governmental entity shall retaliate or otherwise harass, discipline or discriminate against any person because the person reported, in good faith, a suspected violation of subsection (a) of this section or provided information related to an investigation of a suspected violation of subsection (a) of this section.

Section 3.

W.S. 35
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103(a)(xiii) is amended to read:

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Definitions.

(a)

For the purpose of this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(xiii)

"This act" means W.S. 35
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101 through 35
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403, 35
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405, 35
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406, 35
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408 through 35
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1106, 35
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1414 through 35
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1432, 35
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1601 through 35
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1613, 35
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1701, 35
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1801 through 35
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1803, 35
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2001 through 35
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2004
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and
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and 35
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2201
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Section 4.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or alter any contract or agreement that is publicly disclosed or subject to public disclosure and that is entered into with the state of Wyoming before the effective date of this act.

Section 5
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This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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