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House GOP members push for more restrictions on weather modification and geoengineering, citing unknown and possibly disastrous consequences. Meanwhile, Democrats question the planned cuts to the EPA, which oversees environmental regulations. Entity correspondent Jason Blair has more. For years, anybody who questioned weather modification was labeled crazy or a conspiracy theorist. Now we've learned that they've been doing it for decades. And not only is it a multi-billion dollar industry, the government has invested a lot of Americans' hard-earned tax dollars into it. Weather modification and cloud seeding, as was mentioned, it's a real thing. It exists. It has been practiced in varying forms since the 1940s. Republicans on the House DOJ subcommittee are calling for more regulation with weather modification technology, as well as large-scale attempts to intervene in the Earth's climate, also known as geoengineering. And Democrats are wondering why there are proposed cuts to the EPA, whose job it is to research in these areas. Today's advocates of geoengineering don't just want to address droughts or improve conditions for agriculture. They want to control the Earth's climate to address the fake climate change hoax and head off global warming. That, of course, requires massive interventions. But it's hard to understand why we're discussing banning these practices outright in this committee, when the oversight committee in another subcommittee, literally, as we're sitting here right now, is having a hearing about dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency. One witness defends geoengineering, specifically the method of using sulfur dioxide to block sunlight. The approaches that are used in doing it are all based on what's happened naturally. So, volcanic eruptions put sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. It turns to sulfate. It reflects maybe one percent of solar radiation. Venture capitalists are already trying to get rich backing companies like Make Sunsets, which inject aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News.