Inside a Salt Lake City warehouse, a group of men are controlling the weather.
As the team of drone pilots and environmental specialists — employees of the cloud seeding company Rainmaker — spray chemicals into the sky to induce snow, a small crowd, including one of Utah’s top environmental officials, watches carefully.
The process of cloud seeding, a long-studied method of artificially inducing precipitation, has been creating rain and snow in Utah since the 1950s. But in the era of President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Health Again” movement, weather modification has become a target of conspiracy theories and political attacks…