Explaining the Right: Why are Republicans pushing weather-weapon laws?

In April, Tennessee Republicans passed a state law to ban chemtrails, the mythical substance long touted by conspiracy theorists as chemicals released into the atmosphere to either control the weather or exert mind control over the population.

More recently, Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia recently introduced similar legislation that would ban “weather modification activities” in the airspace over that state.

What is going on?