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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Power Grid Watchdog Warns That Over-Reliance on Wind and Solar Will Make Winter Blackouts Likely
Published in Just the News February 2, 2026 The North American grid watchdog Thursday published its annual long-term reliability assessment, and the analysis offers a sharp...
ASL Releases “Thrown to the Wolves” Exposing Devastating Impacts on Rural Communities
American Stewards recently released a powerful new film called “Thrown to the Wolves,” documenting the severe consequences of reintroducing the gray wolf in Colorado and the...
Intervenors Needed in Texas’ 765KV Transmission Lines
Last week, American Stewards reported on the $33 billion statewide plan to construct new 765KV transmission lines that threaten to condemn 4000 linear miles of private property....
Texas Transmission Line Land Grab
The State of Texas has initiated a $33 billion statewide plan to construct multiple 765kV transmission lines that will traverse the entire state. Sold as the solution to solve...
House Passes Gray Wolf Delisting Bill
On December 18th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 845, the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, 211 - 204. The bill was filed by U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and...
ESA Amendments Act of 2025
Two key small landowner protection provisions were added to the ESA Amendments Act as one of the House Natural Resource Committee’s last actions for 2025. American Stewards has...
Small Landowner Protections Added to ESA Bill
Thank you for answering the call. Yesterday, during the committee markup on the ESA Amendment Act of 2025, two key provisions were added to the bill that protects small...
Trump’s Tweaks Will Help Endangered Species
By Shawn Regan, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute The Trump administration recently proposed reforms to correct one of the act’s most counterproductive aspects....
Trump Administration Revises ESA Regulations
The Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced new rules last week to “strengthen American energy independence, improve regulatory predictability and...
Gov. Hochul and AG Leticia James Continue Biden’s 30×30 Plan
On November 10th, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Leticia James signed a Memorandum of Agreement to Advance New York’s “Climate and ‘30x30’ Open Space...
ESA and DOI “Playing God”
Senator John Kennedy, a well-known animal rights activist, inadvertently proved why the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a miserable failure and needs reforming or eliminated. “I...
Congress Overturns Biden Land Use Rules
During the Biden administration, American Stewards published numerous articles and warnings about how land management plans of federal agencies were being used to destroy private...
Florida Continues Its Massive Take Over of Private Land
Within the last four months, Governor Ron DeSantis, Attorney General James Uthmeier, and Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson have all announced land acquisitions via...
$250k Lost Annually by Family Ranchers with Wolves
The Office for Fiscal Regulatory Accountability (OFRA) has released a new estimate of the economic losses faced by family ranches when the endangered Grey Wolf is present on...
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