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This bill prohibits geoengineering activities within North Carolina by first defining "atmospheric modification" as techniques including stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), cloud seeding, and electromagnetic radio frequency emissions that could potentially alter temperature, weather, sunlight intensity, or impact environments, agriculture, wildlife, human health, aviation, state security, or the state's economy. The bill specifically adds a new legal provision making it illegal to intentionally inject, release, or disperse chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus into the atmosphere with the sole purpose of modifying atmospheric conditions, with an explicit exception for pesticide application via aircraft that is already licensed by the Pesticide Board. The Environmental Management Commission is tasked with developing rules to implement these prohibitions, and the law will take effect immediately upon becoming law. The bill appears designed to prevent experimental or large-scale climate intervention techniques that could potentially manipulate atmospheric conditions, reflecting concerns about the potential unintended consequences of such technological interventions.

https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S485