(Texas Scorecard) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing to implement the Biden-Harris administration’s Sustains Act which aims to regulate who will own environmental services.
According to private property rights advocates, American Stewards of Liberty (ASL), examples of environmental services include “the air we breathe, photosynthesis, pollination, and even the health benefits of open space.”
Specifically, the new law allows private funds to be used for conservation efforts on private land. The USDA will oversee the program, and the Secretary, preparing its implementation, will also decide who owns the environmental service.
Although the public may still provide the USDA with comments about the plan until September 16, 2024, ASL refers to the new law as “critical for proponents of the United Nations’ sustainable development agenda to achieve.”
The private property rights advocates see the program as a means to “provide the path to transfer America’s real assets from private citizens to federal and international interests.”
Unlike the value of genuine property rights found in the free market, ASL argues that calculating the financial value of natural assets is “purely subjective” and that the current administration is “dragging America into a dangerous black hole that will have devastating consequences on our economy, and on individual property rights.”
ASL also sees the Sustains Act as part of a broader goal of adding the “value of real assets such as land and water, as well as natural processes such as air and environmental services” to its financial records.
The Biden-Harris administration has targeted land in Texas and across the country as part of the 30×30 agenda, an international effort to take control of 30 percent of the world’s land and oceans by 2030.
ASL recently posted on X that Democrat nominee for President Kamala Harris staunchly supports the international 30×30 agenda.
Kamala Harris was one of the earliest advocates of the 30×30 agenda, long before most Americans had been made aware of the international land grab.
However, many Texans, including U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington, continue to fight against the government’s overreach.
In early August, Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged the Biden-Harris administration over its weaponization of environmental law.
Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller also spoke out against the federal government’s attempts to control land in the state and its effect on Texas farmers, ranchers, and other industries.
