Biden Administration Tosses Out 2017 Trump-Era Rule That Allowed Big Oil to Kill Birds

[JLW]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
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Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

Great move by President Biden.

 

[TNHarley]

He has to save the birds for the wind mills.

 

[wamose]

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

Chill, dude.

He's just ignoring the solution to bird kills.. He'd rather attack Biden.

It is NOT a solution to bird kills. 30% of them are still being killed. God, you people, and your common core math failures.

And, 70% of them are NOT being killed.

The article said the study was small and needed much more research to validate any approximate findings it was claiming. You people will accept anything that agrees with your world view as gospel. And even if this actually did turned out to reduce bird kills by 70%, the number starts out so high that 30% turns into a very substantial number all by itself.

 

[ReinyDays]

Best estimate of turbine bird deaths per year in the United States is under 3 million ... compared to 30 million death from overhead power lines ... we measure bird deaths from house cats as closer to 300 million ...

Complaining about blade-strikes is disingenuous or ill-informed ...

 

[Manonthestreet]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
...
...
Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

Yep, it's quicker to just kill them with wind turbines!!!!

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Migratory Bird Program | Conserving America's Birds (fws.gov)

Wind turbines take a terrible toll on birds | CFACT

How Many Birds Do Wind Turbines Really Kill? | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

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• Painting Just One Wind Turbine Blade Black Could ...
  
  https://www.iflscience.com/environment/painting
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  All it takes is a touch of black paint. By painting just one blade black, the researchers report they have managed to reduce bird deaths from wind turbines by over 70 percent. Wind turbine in the...
• Painting wind turbine blades black can reduce bird deaths 70%
  
  https://www.fastcompany.com/90543981/painting-wind
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  Aug 28, 2020 · In a new study, researchers found that painting a single blade black on a white wind turbine reduces bird deaths by around 70%. The step makes …

Have not seen one black blade ......

 

[Manonthestreet]

Best estimate of turbine bird deaths per year in the United States is under 3 million ... compared to 30 million death from overhead power lines ... we measure bird deaths from house cats as closer to 300 million ...

Complaining about blade-strikes is disingenuous or ill-informed ...

Probably still more than oil spill kills

 

[ReinyDays]

Probably still more than oil spill kills

What turbine blades kill, the scavengers will eat ... coyotes, eagles, maggots ... nothing eats an oil-soaked bird ... the oil kills everything ...

 

[Manonthestreet]

Probably still more than oil spill kills

What turbine blades kill, the scavengers will eat ... coyotes, eagles, maggots ... nothing eats an oil-soaked bird ... the oil kills everything ...

Well that makes it all better

 

[ReinyDays]

What turbine blades kill, the scavengers will eat ... coyotes, eagles, maggots ... nothing eats an oil-soaked bird ... the oil kills everything ...

Well that makes it all better

Makes what you posted a fabrication ... or a lie if you want ... better to bury all the transmission lines ... but saving birds isn't on your agenda ... you're a cat-owner I can tell ...

 

[Manonthestreet]

What turbine blades kill, the scavengers will eat ... coyotes, eagles, maggots ... nothing eats an oil-soaked bird ... the oil kills everything ...

Well that makes it all better

Makes what you posted a fabrication ... or a lie if you want ... better to bury all the transmission lines ... but saving birds isn't on your agenda ... you're a cat-owner I can tell ...

Does no such thing .......sounds like a lie to salve your conscience....see two can play.

 

[ReinyDays]

Does no such thing .......sounds like a lie to salve your conscience....see two can play.

Would you rather a windstorm knock down 50 wind turbines in your neighborhood ... or a 24 inch oil pipeline rupture? ... go ahead, I dare you to say a million gallons of crude is better than twisted metal ... let's see just how ill-informed you are ...

 

[Sunsettommy]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
...
...
Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

If you paint one blade on a wind turbine black it reduces bird kills by 70%. I posted links earlier.

No body opposes it, so why don't they just do it?

 

[surada]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
...
...
Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

Yep, it's quicker to just kill them with wind turbines!!!!

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Migratory Bird Program | Conserving America's Birds (fws.gov)

Wind turbines take a terrible toll on birds | CFACT

How Many Birds Do Wind Turbines Really Kill? | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

View attachment 466070View attachment 466071

• Painting Just One Wind Turbine Blade Black Could ...
  
  https://www.iflscience.com/environment/painting
  ...
  All it takes is a touch of black paint. By painting just one blade black, the researchers report they have managed to reduce bird deaths from wind turbines by over 70 percent. Wind turbine in the...
• Painting wind turbine blades black can reduce bird deaths 70%
  
  https://www.fastcompany.com/90543981/painting-wind
  ...
  Aug 28, 2020 · In a new study, researchers found that painting a single blade black on a white wind turbine reduces bird deaths by around 70%. The step makes …

Have not seen one black blade ......

I have seen dozens of them in recent months.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
...
...
Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

It is interesting that BOTH administration admit wind power towers do kill lots of birds.

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[surada]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
...
...
Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

If you paint one blade on a wind turbine black it reduces bird kills by 70%. I posted links earlier.

No body opposes it, so why don't they just do it?

They are doing it everywhere.

 

[Flash]

Oil is the Debil for all these idiot Moon Bats.

 

[surada]

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

Chill, dude.

He's just ignoring the solution to bird kills.. He'd rather attack Biden.

It is NOT a solution to bird kills. 30% of them are still being killed. God, you people, and your common core math failures.

And, 70% of them are NOT being killed.

The article said the study was small and needed much more research to validate any approximate findings it was claiming. You people will accept anything that agrees with your world view as gospel. And even if this actually did turned out to reduce bird kills by 70%, the number starts out so high that 30% turns into a very substantial number all by itself.

That was months ago.

 

[westwall]

Biden Team Tosses Trump-Era Opinion That Gave Industry A Free Pass To Kill Birds

A 2017 legal interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act “allowed industry to kill birds with impunity," a Biden administration official said Monday.

www.yahoo.com

The Biden administration scrapped a controversial Trump-era legal opinion that gutted protections for hundreds of species of migratory birds.

In December 2017, Daniel Jorjani, then the top lawyer at the Department of the Interior and a former longtime adviser to the fossil fuel mogul Koch brothers, issued an interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) that effectively legalized all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by chemical spills, oil and gas operations, power lines and wind turbines.

Jorjani argued that the law was only meant to prohibit the intentional hunting, capturing or killing of bird species, and that as long as a company or individual does not mean to kill birds, they are protected from prosecution.
...
...
Under the 100-year-old conservation law, it is illegal to pursue, hunt, capture, kill or possess migratory birds or their parts without proper permits. And since the 1970s, the federal government has occasionally prosecuted timber, fossil fuel and mining companies for unintentional but often avoidable bird deaths caused by industrial activity.


If you don't know the background, the Trump Administration was terrible for the environment and animal rights. He gutted the Endangered Species Act, torched the EPA, and also did the above to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the days of Roosevelt and conservationist bird lovers. Today marks a good day for animal rights and the rule of law against big business.

EDIT: Everything in italics is from the article, not me. "Gutted" is their word not mine.

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

If you paint one blade on a wind turbine black it reduces bird kills by 70%. I posted links earlier.

I don't see anyone doing it. Do you? Even with a 70% reduction all that does is make the destruction of the bird population take a little longer. The net result is the same.

 

[westwall]

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

Chill, dude.

No, I like raptors, I watched the Altamont pass population be destroyed. There is no justification for windfarms. They never produce what they claim and they destroy bird and bat populations that are critical to the environment.

 

[westwall]

You want wind farms which kill rare raptors. They get a special dispensation for killing the birds. Wherever they are they decimate raptor and bat populations so spare us your faux concern.

Chill, dude.

He's just ignoring the solution to bird kills.. He'd rather attack Biden.

It is NOT a solution to bird kills. 30% of them are still being killed. God, you people, and your common core math failures.

And, 70% of them are NOT being killed.

Yet. Moron. All your solution does is slow down the death rate. You must be a special kind of stupid.