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Powering Down Property Values
Studies showing depressed property values near transmission lines accumulate Though research on high-voltage transmission lines and property values is not unanimous, a...
In Texas, a Federal Loan, a Federal Policy, and Unanswered Questions
The U.S. Department of Energy has closed a $3.26 billion loan to AEP Texas, one of the principal developers of the controversial 765-kilovolt transmission network proposed for...
From Property Rights to Personal Servitude
Out in Marin County, California, along the rich ranch land of the coast, Willie Benedetti spent four-and-a-half decades building and running his pride and joy—an iconic...
South Carolina Goes All In for 50-Percent Government Control of Land
If South Carolina legislators aren’t rushing enthusiastically to protect their state from unregulated data centers, they are far more thrilled with the notion of taking private...
Cruz, Arrington Move to Codify Defeat of Muleshoe Land Grab
After helping defeat the Biden administration’s proposed expansion of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, American Stewards of Liberty is backing legislation by U.S. Sen. Ted...
ASL Seeks Pause on Determining Need for Transmission Line
As Robert Montoya of Texas Scorecard reports, American Stewards of Liberty has asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to postpone determining whether four proposed 765-kV...
USFWS Finalizes ESA Protection for Rusty-Patched Bumblebee
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has finalized habitat protection for the rusty patched bumble bee, designating some 1.5 million acres as critical habitat for the...
Study Urges Pause on 765-kV Transmission Lines
As Texas considers the proposed building of three 765-kilovolt transmission lines, a new study is challenging the underlying assumptions of one of the largest infrastructure...
Local Commission Seeks Answers About ESG in Transmission Lines Project
Local officials in rural Texas are raising new questions about massive proposed transmission lines intended to move power to the Permian Basin, with concerns ranging from impacts...
“This Land Is Your Land… Until It Isn’t – American Energy Works”
Season 1, Episode 19 | 2026 | 31:18 American Energy Works’ Molly Vogt interviews an organic farmer in Erath County, Texas, whose organic farming methods could be revoked if...
Parker County Conservatives Hear Warning on Data Centers and the 765kV Land Grab
Last Thursday, American Stewards of Liberty Executive Director Margaret Byfield joined an impressive lineup of speakers at the Parker County Conservatives meeting in Weatherford,...
CFACT Exposes the Endangered Species Act – It Simply Does Not Work
Citizens for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT, has recently released three articles reporting on how environmentalists profit from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) at the...
Oncor’s ‘Due Diligence’ for Proposed Power Line Questioned
Local commission questions U.S. Fish and Wildlife about Oncor’s wildlife permit. By Robert Montoya | April 28, 2026 It was revealed during a local government committee hearing...
Senate Looks to Fix Outdated ESA
Last month, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, chaired by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), held a hearing on the Endangered...
American Stewards Still Standing in 765kV Intervention
American Stewards is leading the fight on multiple fronts against the State of Texas first ever 765kV transmission line project defending the private property rights of thousands...
ASL Signs Coalition Letter to Pass ESA Amendments Act of 2025
Last week, American Stewards and 19 other national organizations, joined in a letter of support with Pacific Legal Foundation, supporting Chairman Bruce Westerman’s H.R. 1897 ESA...
Senate Interim Charges Filed on 765-kV Transmission Project
Last week, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, President of the Texas Senate, filed Interim Charges for Senate oversight hearings on dozens of issues affecting Texas. One of the...
Automatic Delisting of Endangered Species
American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) is calling on Congress to include a provision in the upcoming budget reconciliation package that would require endangered species listings to...
Oil-rich Texas to build power lines for renewables, and landowners face possible eminent domain
Published by Just the News Despite being one of the most prolific oil and gas regions in the world, the state of Texas is proposing to build 200-foot high high-voltage power...
Update on Texas’ 765kV Transmission Lines
American Stewards has now intervened as a plaintiff in two of the five segments proposed for the 765kV transmission lines to transmit unreliable solar and wind energy to the...
KNRC Wins Federal Case to Remove Lesser Prairie Chicken
On March 29, 2025, the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition (KNRC) won a victory in the Western District Court of Texas vacating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s 4(d) Rule for the...
Rep. Arrington Makes Sure Another Muleshoe Never Happens Again
Last week, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX-19) introduced H.R. 7348, the Transparency in Federal Land Acquisitions Act that would require a public comment period in...
Texas 765kV Transmission Lines Update
American Stewards of Liberty has now intervened in two of the five segments for the transmission lines being proposed under the Public Utilities Commission of Texas’s Permian...
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