EPA's Zeldin announces release of info on contrails, geoengineering

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday announced that the agency would release information to the public about contrails and geoengineering.

"The Trump EPA is committed to total transparency," Zeldin wrote on the social media platform X. "I tasked my team @EPA to compile everything we know about contrails and geoengineering to release to you now publicly."

In an accompanying video, Zeldin said that many people over the years who asked questions about contrails and geoengineering were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and that was going to change.

A contrail is a trail of condensed water that comes out of an aircraft or rocket at high altitude, while geoengineering is another word for climate intervention. 

The EPA announced on its website that it had created online resources for Americans to access more information.

"EPA also created a new online resource focused specifically 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," the website reads.