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Enhancing the weather: governance of weather modification activities of the United States

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posted on 2023-05-21, 06:44 authored by Manon SimonManon Simon
In the context of climate change, weather modification by cloud seeding, and in particular, precipitation enhancement techniques, has gained a renewed attention from governments. In the United States, several states run weather modification programs to secure freshwater resources and increase both crop and hydroelectricity production. Weather modification techniques were developed post–World War II, and so were the legal arrangements that govern them. Since then, weather modification law has undergone little to no reform. California and Texas are two active users of cloud-seeding technologies but employ very different governance frameworks. This Article assesses the effectiveness of weather modification governance in these two states and argues that reforms are needed to align weather modification legal regimes to principles of environmental governance.

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Publication title

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Volume

46

Pagination

149-216

ISSN

1091-9724

Department/School

Faculty of Law

Publisher

William & Mary School of Law

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright c 2021 by the authors.

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Environmentally sustainable energy activities not elsewhere classified; Government and politics not elsewhere classified; Law reform

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