It’s the time of year when legislators file bills, although many of them aren’t actually written yet so we’ve only got the titles. A couple hundred have been filed; I zipped through them and flagged these scientifically dubious ideas. There may well be others – you can search for foolishness among the many, many proposals right here.

HB 2025-0912: Prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.

• Don’t want any of that nasty microwave radiation or weather modification! (New Hampshire has a history of bills outlawing weather modification. That topic has been adopted by the chem-trail crowd to camouflage their patently silly conspiracy ideas.)

HB 2025-0528: prohibiting fluoridation of public water systems.

• You knew that one was coming since RFK Jr. has given this long-running foolishness legitimacy within the Trump Party.

HB 2025-0200: repealing the New Hampshire vaccine association.

• See above for RFK Jr. commentary. There’s another bill (0284) about video recordings of the group’s meetings and “requiring questions put to it in writing or at a meeting be answered and posted on its website within 14 days”. There’s also 2024-0440: Relative to immunization requirements that will be some form of anti-vax screed.

HB 2025-0164: Prohibiting electric vehicles in commercial parking garages.

• This has come up in past years. For safety’s sake, we need to limit garages to thousands of gallons of explosive liquids.

HB 2025-0888: Removing authority for municipalities to regulate mandatory on-site parking requirements.

• You just know the phrase “war on cars” will be used frequently in hearings.

HB 2025-0183 Relative to rejecting all offshore wind energy projects in the waters off the coast of New Hampshire and the Gulf of Maine and 0735: Prohibiting offshore wind energy infrastructure

• Oh for crying out loud.

HB 2025-0511 Establishing a commission to solicit reports and testimony regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena in the state

• Yes, let’s spend tax dollars on listening to people tell us about the weird thing they saw in the night sky that they’re sure was a UFO defying known physics!

HB 2025-0910: Requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol contest.

• Wait – this one makes sense! Ethanol is greenwashing boondoggle, both financially and environmentally.