Ron DeSantis just exposed a covert Green New Deal scheme hidden in Congress

Democrats in Washington, D.C. are trying to sneak Green New Deal regulations through the back door.

But Ron DeSantis and conservative leaders caught them red-handed.

And Ron DeSantis just exposed a covert Green New Deal scheme hidden in Congress.

South Dakota House Speaker exposes the dirty details

The cat’s out of the bag. 

Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee thought nobody would notice when they stuffed a radical provision into a budget reconciliation bill that would let the feds bulldoze right over state laws protecting landowners from carbon pipeline companies.

South Dakota House Speaker Jon Hansen wasn’t having any of it. 

He took to X and laid it all out for the world to see.

“Property rights are under attack again,” Hansen wrote. “A House Energy and Commerce proposal for the budget reconciliation bill would override state laws that protect landowners’ private property rights from being taken by Green New Deal carbon sequestration pipeline companies.”

Property rights are under attack again.

A House Energy and Commerce proposal for the budget reconciliation bill would override state laws that protect landowners’ private property rights from being taken by Green New Deal carbon sequestration pipeline companies.

The proposal… https://t.co/FWKqiaVwbe pic.twitter.com/wakjgv3d4D

— Speaker Jon Hansen (@SpeakerHansen) May 14, 2025

Hansen didn’t just talk – he brought receipts. 

His post included actual images of the bill’s text, highlighting the parts where Washington bureaucrats would strip states of their authority to regulate where these controversial pipelines can go.

Talk about a federal power grab. State laws? Local safety concerns? 

This bill says forget all that.

DeSantis jumps into the fray to defend states’ rights

Florida’s Governor wasn’t about to stay quiet when he caught wind of this scheme. 

Ron DeSantis immediately fired back on social media by making it crystal clear where he stands.

“This represents overriding both the rights of states and private property owners to serve Biden’s Green New Deal,” DeSantis fumed on X. “What the heck is going on up there?”

This represents overriding both the rights of states and private property owners to serve Biden’s Green New Deal.

What the heck is going on up there? https://t.co/pAH7YP4qa6

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 14, 2025

Like many conservatives, he’s had it up to here with federal agencies acting like they own the place – especially when “the place” belongs to private citizens.

The proposal targets regulations that require approval for a carbon pipeline’s location. 

Federal authority would steamroll right over state-level protections that were put in place specifically to shield property owners from having their land hijacked for these massive projects.

South Dakota has been fighting this battle for years

This fight hits especially close to home for folks in South Dakota, where landowners have been duking it out with pipeline companies for years now.

The tension got so bad that Hansen included a photo in his post showing an armed guard surveying private property without the owner’s permission during a 2023 incident. 

This is the current scene on private property in South Dakota: an out-of-state, for-profit corporation with armed patrol intruding on property without the landowner’s consent to lay a carbon sequestration pipeline that the landowner doesn’t want. This is not freedom. pic.twitter.com/OO7kzOMe8K

— Speaker Jon Hansen (@SpeakerHansen) June 6, 2023

Nothing says “good neighbor” like having armed men trespassing on your land, right?

South Dakota GOP Representative Karla Lems chimed in, too, adding her voice to the growing chorus of state officials who are absolutely livid about the federal government’s attempted end-run around state authority.

These carbon pipelines – designed to capture and bury CO2 emissions underground – need tons of land. 

That’s led to some pretty nasty showdowns with folks who aren’t exactly thrilled about having these installations forced onto property that’s been in their families for generations.

Property rights advocates ready for a fight

This whole mess has conservatives circling the wagons. 

They’re framing this as nothing short of an assault on basic constitutional principles – and they’re not wrong.

The argument is simple: Madison and Jefferson would be rolling in their graves if they saw politicians dictating land-use decisions to states. 

That’s just not how the system was designed to work.

As the reconciliation bill inches closer to a vote, the temperature of this debate keeps rising. 

Conservatives are digging their heels in, dead-set on protecting landowners from what they see as an unconstitutional land grab wearing a green mask.

The real victims are rural Americans

This controversy has spread way beyond South Dakota. 

From Iowa to Nebraska to Texas, landowners and state officials are raising red flags about the feds flexing their muscles on pipeline projects.

Progressive climate strategies rely heavily on these carbon sequestration pipelines, but they’ve hit a brick wall of resistance in rural communities. 

And can you blame them? 

Residents are worried about everything from safety hazards to tanking property values to ruined farmland.

The way conservatives see it, this proposal might be dressed up in environmental language, but it sets a dangerous precedent that could be used to trample state authority in all sorts of areas down the road.

As this battle plays out, property rights advocates are begging lawmakers to pump the brakes on this controversial provision and remember there are actual limits to federal power written into that little document called the Constitution.