The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) has sued Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for waiving several environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the National...
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USDA Cancels $1 Billion in IRA Conservation Grants
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds granted by the Biden administration that would go directly to environmental organizations were rescinded by the Trump Administration last...
Multiple States Continue Biden’s 30×30 Agenda
The Trump administration rescinded Biden’s 30x30 (America the Beautiful) scheme on day one of his second term in office, but multiple states continue the destructive path to...
BlackRock Continues its March to Monetize Nature
One of the backers behind monetizing natural processes is the largest investment firm in the world, BlockRock. Earlier this year, they released a commentary that notes taxes on...
Perpetuity is Not Working
Back in April, Congresswomen Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) introduced the Landowner Easement Rights Act that limits the term of a conservation easement to 30...
Environmentalists Keep 30×30 Land Acquisition Gains
Senate: On Saturday night, Senator Lee withdrew his federal land sales provision from the budget reconciliation bill. Concerns that the lands would be sold to China, Blackrock...
Rolling Back 30×30 by Reducing the Federal Land Inventory
As reported in last week’s Liberty Matters, Senator Mike Lee from Utah included in the Senate’s FY25 Budget Reconciliation Bill, President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” an...
N.J. Family’s Land Being Taken by Eminent Domain
The Cranberry Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey voted unanimously in May to approve a plan to acquire through eminent domain Andy Henry’s family farm to meet...
Florida Legislators Come to Their Senses
The Florida legislature finally came to their senses last week and approved budget cuts to Governor DeSantis’ flagship conservation land acquisition program known as “Florida...
Federal Failures, Kansas Consequences: The Quivira Water Grab
By Tracey Barton - Executive Director, Kansas Natural Resource Coalition When the federal government threatens to seize private farmland to fix its own mistakes, Kansas counties...
Iowa Landowners and Local Governments Lose Against Summit
Last week both Governor Kim Reynolds and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC (Summit) allowing their carbon capture pipeline to be built...
White House Counsel Sets Stage for President to Revoke National Monuments
What appears to be the beginning process to rescind or reduce the size of national monuments was launched last week in a legal memorandum by Counsel to the President. The...
OPINION: Eminent Threat: Federal Energy Corridor Endangers Eastern New Mexico Farms and Ranches
Written by Bronson Corn June 10, 2025 Eastern New Mexico is in the crosshairs of the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (NIETC). That means livelihoods of many...
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
Rob Gordon, Advisor to CFACT, writes how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s definition of harm needs to be eliminated. He also submitted comments on behalf of CFACT (Committee For A...
Interior Department Seeks Public Input on Repealing Public Lands and Natural Resources Rules
The Department of Interior (DOI) announced on May 16, they are asking for public comments to “identify outdated, overly complex or burdensome regulations.” It’s all a part of...
30×30 Conservation Welfare Programs Remain in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”
While the House bill makes significant cuts to the green new deal agenda, including eliminating pro carbon sequestration pipeline language, the final bill failed to cut one of...
New Release: The Muleshoe Land Grab Video
We have just released a new video that tells the story of the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge expansion – an attempt to federalize 700,000 private land acres in Texas and New Mexico....
Tennessee Governor Revives and Passes Land Preservation Act
For nearly 30 years, American Stewards has fought against the use of conservation easements to lure unsuspecting landowners into relinquishing their private property rights. Last...
Defeating Carbon Pipeline in South Dakota May be Revived by Congress’ Reconciliation Bill
Earlier this year, ASL reported in Liberty Matters how the landowners won a major victory over Summit Carbon Solutions and the carbon sequestration pipeline they intended to...
Legislation Filed to Remove Two Species from the ESA List
Legislation filed in Congress will remove the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard from the Endangered Species list freeing up energy and agricultural producers...
Point Reyes Land Grab by TNC
A lawsuit brought by environmental groups, including The Nature Conservancy (TNC), has forced 12 ranching families off the Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) in northern...
USDA Receives 100’s of Responses of Lawfare After Maude Family Charges Dropped
Less than a week after USDA’s Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins formally dropped the charges against the Maude family and opened a new portal for landowners facing similar...
US Rejects Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations Meeting
In a rebuke to the United Nations’ “International Day of Peaceful Coexistence,” the United States firmly denounced the UN’s “master plan for humanity.” Known as the “2030 Agenda...
U.S. District Court Ends Biden-Era Lesser Prairie Chicken Rule
For the first time a federal court has struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s overburdensome ‘4(d)’ rule under the Endangered Species Act for the lesser...
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