Rebecca Terrell

1 day ago | thenewamerican.com | Rebecca Terrell

Farmers and landowners throughout the nation are urgently opposing the “big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump wants to see passed before Memorial Day. It’s a budget omnibus that encompasses defense, energy and tax priorities of the current administration, but it also includes a federal eminent domain land grab posed to enrich private, for-profit pipeline companies at the expense of taxpayers and property owners. Congress is fast-tracking it.

2 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Rebecca Terrell

The people of Colorado are flooding their governor’s office with calls for the release of Tina Peters. She is the former Mesa County clerk and recorder who is serving a nine-year sentence for election interference. In office, she was responsible for maintaining election systems in her county. The Denver Post calls the ruling “persecution” and an “example of [a] weaponized justice system. Like many Americans in 2020, she had questions about election integrity.

3 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Rebecca Terrell

One day after the most joyful in the Catholic Church calendar, her faithful are mourning the loss of their pontiff. Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, the Vatican announced. He was 88 years old. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, stated that Francis “returned to the house of the Father” at 7:35 a.m. after battling a lung infection that led to double pneumonia.

4 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Rebecca Terrell

The Coalition to Stop CO2 Pipelines is gathering signatures on a petition asking Congress to “protect the public” from carbon capture and storage (CCS). Under the Biden administration, Congress included billions of dollars in federal subsidies for CCS in the 2021 Infrastructure Act and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Additional billions are available to private pipeline companies through tax credits.

1 month ago | thenewamerican.com | Rebecca Terrell

A grassroots group of private landowners, threatened by the prospect of eminent domain for hazardous carbon-capture pipelines, is gathering signatures on a petition to Congress. They want our legislators to end the IRS 45Q tax credit for private companies that install the wasteful projects. The credit contains a direct-pay loophole, meaning that these private companies can use eminent domain to fleece taxpayers to the tune of billions of dollars.