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‘Chemtrail’ Theories Warn of Health Dangers From Contrails. The Idea Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS
Kennedy’s task force will evaluate chemtrails claims amid bipartisan political debate, despite scientific consensus rejecting these theories as baseless.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing a task force to review chemtrail claims, with an internal memo obtained by KFF Health News outlining the focus, October 23, 2025.
- Social media has amplified chemtrail and related fringe ideas, and GOP lawmakers have introduced legislation in about two dozen states while Florida created a portal for alleged violations.
- The July 14 memo circulated inside HHS alleges aerosolized Aluminum, Barium, and Strontium via stratospheric aerosol injection, and Gray Delany said he drafted it with Jim Lee's help; HHS has interviewed applicants to lead a chemtrails task force.
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other lawmakers have pushed bans and hearings while Florida set up a portal to report alleged geoengineering violations, but federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency say no evidence supports ongoing large-scale geoengineering or health harms from contrails.
- Researchers warn that study of geoengineering remains experimental and contested as misinformation causes safety risks; private companies conduct field tests, and the GAO 2024 report confirms questions about effectiveness persist.
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a chemtrail? New conspiracy theory takes wing at Kennedy's HHS
While plowing a wheat field in rural Washington state in the 1990s, William Wallace spotted a gray plane overhead that he believed was releasing chemicals to make him sick. The rancher began to suspect that all white vapor trails from aircraft ...
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