by ASL Admin | May 27, 2025
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 the key 30×30 programs authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act. $10,050,000,000 remain authorized for conservation welfare programs that commit private lands to mitigating the climate crisis.
American Stewards exposed the slick way in which environmentalists managed to authorize trillions of dollars for existing conservation programs through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by adding funds to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the Agriculture Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) and the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). These existing programs are funded through the Farm Bill. But the IRA added trillions of dollars to these, and also changed the purpose for these funds now obligating private landowners who enrolled to mitigate climate change and reduce livestock emissions.
Most landowners had no idea the legal purpose for the funds had been changed, and the Biden USDA failed to inform landowners of this switch. This was deliberate so they could create a federal nexus to private lands obligating the use of these lands to mitigating the made up climate crisis.
But free money is hard to pass up, so instead of protecting property rights, lobbyists for big Ag have been working hard to preserve these “climate smart” funds, which they say is necessary for farmers to put food on American’s tables.
They succeeded in preserving those remaining funds for EQIP, CSP and ACEP for a total of $10,050,000,000 through 2026.
The House did reduce the funds obligated to the RCPP program, which directly funds environmental organizations implementing the green new deal. These funds have been reduced from $3,050,000,000 for 2026 to $425,000,000 for 2026, but then also authorizes $450,000,000 annually through 2031.
These are conservation welfare subsidies. They are not necessary for agriculture production. They drive up land and food prices and drive out the small landowners who want to stay in business without relying on federal welfare. They also tie every landowner who enrolls in this pot of funds to mitigate the climate crisis. It creates a dangerous federal nexus to their land, likely to be called in during the next democratic administration.
Carbon Sequestration Pipeline Provision Removed from “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
As reported in last week’s Liberty Matters, the U.S. House of Representatives had originally included language in HR 1, Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” overriding state law like that created in South Dakota to protect landowners from carbon sequestration pipelines.
However, in the final marked up version that passed out of the House, Sec. 41006 entitled: CARBON DIOXIDE, HYDROGEN, AND PETROLEUM PIPELINE PERMITTING, Sec. 7A(d) “Effect on License” on page 90, was stricken from the bill.
Originally, Section 7A (d) under Sec. 41006 stated:
“(d) Effect of License. – Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Commission (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) issues a license under subsection (e)(1) of this section and the licensee is in compliance with such license, no requirement of State or local law that requires approval of the location of the covered pipeline with respect to which the license is issued may be enforced against the licensee.”
This language effectively destroyed state’s rights and the property rights of those landowners who would have had to deal with Summit Carbon Solutions in South Dakota or any other carbon sequestration pipeline company wishing to build a pipeline within a state that had opposing state legislation.
This section allowed developers of oil, carbon dioxide and hydrogen pipelines to receive an “expedited permitting process” if applicants pay $10 million, or 1 percent, of the total cost of the proposed project.
However, with this language gone, this is a clear victory for the landowners who have fought the carbon sequestration pipeline in South Dakota and any other area in the nation having to fight similar carbon dioxide projects.
When the initial bill was reported with the language allowing carbon pipelines and their companies to override state legislation, South Dakota House Speaker Jon Hansen, tweeted screenshots of the original provision with the message “property rights are under attack again.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican former U.S. House member, reposted the tweet. And added:
“This represents overriding both the rights of states and private property owners to serve Biden’s Green New Deal,” DeSantis wrote above Hansen’s message. “What the heck is going on up there?”
It appears the members heard both the South Dakota Speaker and Gov. DeSantis and struck the language from the bill.
This is clearly a great victory for landowners nationwide.
BIDEN’S GREENHOUSE GAS EDICTS RESCINDED
Also adopted in the House HR 1 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” are rescisions of dozens of “Greenhouse Gas” provisions implemented during the Biden administration.
Starting on page 91 under “Subtitle B – Environment, PART 1 – REPEALS AND RESCISSIONS” are numerous programs created by the Biden radicals that provided funding, grants, and regulations for emission standards, air pollution, greenhouse gas reduction, portions of the Clean Air Act that were amended by Biden, climate justice block grants, and the repeal of Biden’s Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) rules dealing with greenhouse gas and multi-pollutant emission standards.
Even though HR 1 appears to be extremely favorable to our nation, industries, all manufacturing and American citizens, the U.S. Senate is demanding serious amendments and reports are that President Trump is favorable to the Senate making changes. Stay tuned.
