Axios: "Louisiana among at least 12 states seeking 'chemtrail' ban"
by Chelsea Brasted
Reality check: "'Chemtrails" are not real. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says so. Scientists say so. An increasing number of investigative journalistic accounts say so," according to researchers Dustin Tingley and Gernot Wagner, writing in a peer-reviewed study.
- Rather, what folks on the ground are seeing are called "contrails," Tingley and Wagner say, which are "made up of water vapor [and] have been a byproduct of aviation ever since humans began to fly using jet engines."