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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NASA Removes the National Climate Assessment
NASA will no longer post climate data from the National Climate Assessment’s (NCA) website because they rightfully claim their assessments are politically driven and lacking in...
Online Real Estate Sites Attack Land Values and Ownership
According to a senior investigative reporter, Kevin Mooney, the First Street Foundation, a government-funded organization, is pushing “climate risk data” to online real estate...
Kansas County Commissioners Call for Accountability and Transparency in Quivira Water Dispute
Last week, five Kansas counties held a special coordination meeting with the agencies deciding whether to restrict the agricultural use of water in favor of a federal wildlife...
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Act (IRA) funds granted by the Biden administration that would go directly to environmental organizations were rescinded by the Trump Administration last...
Texas Department of Agriculture STAR Fund Activated to Assist Flooding Victims
We grieve with and pray for all the families who lost their loved ones in the Texas flooding last week. Authorities are still in “recovery” mode searching for the 100s of lost...
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The Trump administration rescinded Biden’s 30x30 (America the Beautiful) scheme on day one of his second term in office, but multiple states continue the destructive path to...
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...
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...
Gov. Newsom’s About Face on Environmental Regs
Governor Gavin Newsome required his State Assembly to pass two bills - AB 130 and SB 131 to address California’s housing crisis. He made their passage a condition for signing...
The Oil Tycoon and the Philosopher Threatening Big Oil’s Carbon Capture Plans
In a Wall Street Journal story published June 28, the carbon capture issue has become a contentious battle amongst oil titans. On the “opposed” side, both Ben “Bud” Brigham and...
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...
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...
Texas Restricts Foreign Ownership of Land
Texas has enacted legislation, effective September 1, 2025, that imposes sweeping restrictions on the purchase or acquisition of real property by certain foreign individuals,...
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...
USDA is Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule
In response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14192, Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on Monday USDA is...
Chairman Lee Adds Provision to Reduce Federal Land Inventory
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) added an amendment to the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that would sell off between 2.2 and 3.3 million acres of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest...
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...
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...
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...
Third Chinese Citizen Arrested for Smuggling Biological Materials into U.S.
On Monday, June 9th, a third arrest of a Chinese citizen smuggling biological materials into the United States was announced by the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney from the...
SCOTUS Limits Agency Environmental Reviews
In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday issued a landmark decision that limits the authority of federal judges to block infrastructure projects based on potential...
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