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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched new online resources for Americans seeking transparency on the issue of contrails and geoengineering, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday.
“Americans have legitimate questions about contrails and geoengineering, and they deserve straight answers,” Zeldin said in an official statement. “We’re publishing everything EPA knows about these topics on these websites.”
Contrails are also sometimes known as condensation trails – an aerial phenomenon that leaves the appearance of crisscrossing clouds in the sky in the wake of passing aircraft, drawing speculation and sometimes conspiracy theories about what these trails are comprised of.
The EPA said in its announcement that its new webpages will provide information about “various claims that these occurrences are actually an intentional release of dangerous chemicals or biological agents at high altitudes for a variety of nefarious purposes, including population control, mind control, or attempts to geoengineer Earth or modify the weather.”
“The American public deserves and expects honesty and transparency from their government when seeking answers, but for years people who asked questions in good faith were dismissed – even vilified by the media and their own government,” Zeldin stated in a video addressing the EPA’s newest resources on geoengineering.
“That era is over. The Trump EPA is committed to total transparency,” he added.
The Trump EPA will also include information on solar geoengineering activities, “which involve cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight back to space, usually through injecting gases, like sulfur dioxide, into the upper atmosphere where they form reflective particles.”
Zeldin said, “I want YOU to know everything I know about these topics, and without any exceptions. Instead of simply dismissing these questions and concerns as baseless conspiracies, we’re meeting them head-on.”
The new webpages are published and live for public viewing at this time, under “Geoengineering” and “Information on Contrails from Aircraft” on the EPA’s website.
