Trump Administration moves to ease rules against killing birds.

[JLW]

The Trump administration will move as early as Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations.

The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties.

That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths.

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds


The bird population has decreased by 3,000,000,000 over the past fifty years.


Birds Are Vanishing From North America
***************************************************************************

Birds are disappearing. When I was a kid they seemed to be everywhere. Even in the past twenty years at my home, the hummingbirds and cardinals that flew around the house are all gone.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a hundred years old. This latest plan is just more on Trump's war on the environment.

"In recent weeks, the administration has scrapped a clean water regulation aimed at protecting streams and wetlands, and blocked an effort to require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. Within the next month the administration plans to weaken vehicle emissions standards and a rule restricting mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants. Completing the rule curtailing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act before the November presidential election will be difficult, but the agency has indicated it will push aggressively to do so."

.....

"The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal “by any means or in any manner” to hunt, take, capture or kill birds, nests or eggs from listed species without a permit. Beginning in the 1970s, federal officials used the act to prosecute and fine companies up to $15,000 per bird for accidental deaths on power lines, in oil pits, in wind turbines and by other industrial hazards.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and spewed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and BP agreed to pay $100 million for criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds

Now as I wrote the bird population has been in decline for the past 50 years. You obviously can't blame the Trump administration for that. However, protection of wildlife should not always be secondary to industry and development. It is a shame that so many think that oil companies and other companies that are responsible for despoiling our environment should now get a free pass.


The world is a far different place than the one I grew up in and not for the better.

 

[Oddball]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

 

[Vastator]

Good. Let's hope it eases the restrictions on homeowners in killing these nuisance Candaian geese. These fuckers are more than abundant. They are also aggressive, destructive, and an all around pain in the ass...

 

[B. Kidd]

Solar farms in the Mojave here are cookin' them in-flight.
They're overdone by the time they hit the ground!
Shameful!

 

[JLW]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

 

[Oddball]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

I've learned through experience that leftist doomsaying is just an advanced from of childish whining.....Especially so when there's a political element injected into the situation....NYT SEZ TRUMP WANTS TO KILL ALL THE BIRDS!!...GAFB.

And you little creeps still give not one single fuck about the raptors.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

3 Articles from the new york slime? why bother?

 

[JLW]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

I've learned through experience that leftist doomsaying is just an advanced from of childish whining.....Especially so when there's a political element injected into the situation....TRUMP WANTS TO KILL ALL THE BIRDS!!...GAFB.

And you little creeps still give not one single fuck about the raptors.

You seem incapable of speaking rationally. Take a deep breathe and try again.

 

[rightwinger]

 

[JLW]

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That was one unfortunate bird.

 

[Indeependent]

The Trump administration will move as early as Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations.

The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties.

That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths.

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds


The bird population has decreased by 3,000,000,000 over the past fifty years.


Birds Are Vanishing From North America
***************************************************************************

Birds are disappearing. When I was a kid they seemed to be everywhere. Even in the past twenty years at my home, the hummingbirds and cardinals that flew around the house are all gone.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a hundred years old. This latest plan is just more on Trump's war on the environment.

"In recent weeks, the administration has scrapped a clean water regulation aimed at protecting streams and wetlands, and blocked an effort to require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. Within the next month the administration plans to weaken vehicle emissions standards and a rule restricting mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants. Completing the rule curtailing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act before the November presidential election will be difficult, but the agency has indicated it will push aggressively to do so."

.....

"The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal “by any means or in any manner” to hunt, take, capture or kill birds, nests or eggs from listed species without a permit. Beginning in the 1970s, federal officials used the act to prosecute and fine companies up to $15,000 per bird for accidental deaths on power lines, in oil pits, in wind turbines and by other industrial hazards.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and spewed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and BP agreed to pay $100 million for criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds

Now as I wrote the bird population has been in decline for the past 50 years. You obviously can't blame the Trump administration for that. However, protection of wildlife should not always be secondary to industry and development. It is a shame that so many think that oil companies and other companies that are responsible for despoiling our environment should now get a free pass.


The world is a far different place than the one I grew up in and not for the better.

This OP is for the birds.

 

[Oddball]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

I've learned through experience that leftist doomsaying is just an advanced from of childish whining.....Especially so when there's a political element injected into the situation....TRUMP WANTS TO KILL ALL THE BIRDS!!...GAFB.

And you little creeps still give not one single fuck about the raptors.

You seem incapable of speaking rationally. Take a deep breathe and try again.

I am speaking rationally....You really don't GAF if you can't make it political, so buzz off.

 

[airplanemechanic]

2017 called they want their news back.

Trump administration eases rule against killing birds. · iNaturalist

 

[Rambunctious]

The Trump administration will move as early as Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations.

The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties.

That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths.

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds


The bird population has decreased by 3,000,000,000 over the past fifty years.


Birds Are Vanishing From North America
***************************************************************************

Birds are disappearing. When I was a kid they seemed to be everywhere. Even in the past twenty years at my home, the hummingbirds and cardinals that flew around the house are all gone.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a hundred years old. This latest plan is just more on Trump's war on the environment.

"In recent weeks, the administration has scrapped a clean water regulation aimed at protecting streams and wetlands, and blocked an effort to require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. Within the next month the administration plans to weaken vehicle emissions standards and a rule restricting mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants. Completing the rule curtailing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act before the November presidential election will be difficult, but the agency has indicated it will push aggressively to do so."

.....

"The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal “by any means or in any manner” to hunt, take, capture or kill birds, nests or eggs from listed species without a permit. Beginning in the 1970s, federal officials used the act to prosecute and fine companies up to $15,000 per bird for accidental deaths on power lines, in oil pits, in wind turbines and by other industrial hazards.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and spewed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and BP agreed to pay $100 million for criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds

Now as I wrote the bird population has been in decline for the past 50 years. You obviously can't blame the Trump administration for that. However, protection of wildlife should not always be secondary to industry and development. It is a shame that so many think that oil companies and other companies that are responsible for despoiling our environment should now get a free pass.


The world is a far different place than the one I grew up in and not for the better.

The democrats made wildlife accidents illegal and costly to corporations and the people of our nation....Trump reversed that stupid over reaching rule.....

 

[JLW]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

3 Articles from the new york slime? why bother?

Perhaps you should read them first and then write something insightful that we can discuss.

 

[JLW]

2017 called they want their news back.

Trump administration eases rule against killing birds. · iNaturalist

The NYTs piece does reference a 2017 Department of Interior ruling.

 

[JLW]

The Trump administration will move as early as Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations.

The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties.

That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths.

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds


The bird population has decreased by 3,000,000,000 over the past fifty years.


Birds Are Vanishing From North America
***************************************************************************

Birds are disappearing. When I was a kid they seemed to be everywhere. Even in the past twenty years at my home, the hummingbirds and cardinals that flew around the house are all gone.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a hundred years old. This latest plan is just more on Trump's war on the environment.

"In recent weeks, the administration has scrapped a clean water regulation aimed at protecting streams and wetlands, and blocked an effort to require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. Within the next month the administration plans to weaken vehicle emissions standards and a rule restricting mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants. Completing the rule curtailing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act before the November presidential election will be difficult, but the agency has indicated it will push aggressively to do so."

.....

"The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal “by any means or in any manner” to hunt, take, capture or kill birds, nests or eggs from listed species without a permit. Beginning in the 1970s, federal officials used the act to prosecute and fine companies up to $15,000 per bird for accidental deaths on power lines, in oil pits, in wind turbines and by other industrial hazards.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and spewed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and BP agreed to pay $100 million for criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds

Now as I wrote the bird population has been in decline for the past 50 years. You obviously can't blame the Trump administration for that. However, protection of wildlife should not always be secondary to industry and development. It is a shame that so many think that oil companies and other companies that are responsible for despoiling our environment should now get a free pass.


The world is a far different place than the one I grew up in and not for the better.

The democrats made wildlife accidents illegal and costly to corporations and the people of our nation....Trump reversed that stupid over reaching rule.....

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a 100 years old. It has not stopped the nation from growing since 1918, has it? The Act just makes companies liable for their misfeasance.

 

[WillowTree]

The Trump administration will move as early as Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations.

The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties.

That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths.

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds


The bird population has decreased by 3,000,000,000 over the past fifty years.


Birds Are Vanishing From North America
***************************************************************************

Birds are disappearing. When I was a kid they seemed to be everywhere. Even in the past twenty years at my home, the hummingbirds and cardinals that flew around the house are all gone.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a hundred years old. This latest plan is just more on Trump's war on the environment.

"In recent weeks, the administration has scrapped a clean water regulation aimed at protecting streams and wetlands, and blocked an effort to require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. Within the next month the administration plans to weaken vehicle emissions standards and a rule restricting mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants. Completing the rule curtailing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act before the November presidential election will be difficult, but the agency has indicated it will push aggressively to do so."

.....

"The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal “by any means or in any manner” to hunt, take, capture or kill birds, nests or eggs from listed species without a permit. Beginning in the 1970s, federal officials used the act to prosecute and fine companies up to $15,000 per bird for accidental deaths on power lines, in oil pits, in wind turbines and by other industrial hazards.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and spewed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and BP agreed to pay $100 million for criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds

Now as I wrote the bird population has been in decline for the past 50 years. You obviously can't blame the Trump administration for that. However, protection of wildlife should not always be secondary to industry and development. It is a shame that so many think that oil companies and other companies that are responsible for despoiling our environment should now get a free pass.


The world is a far different place than the one I grew up in and not for the better.

Did you bitch this loudly when Obama gave the wind turbines permission to kill the bald eagles for a period of ten years? Or, are you bitching because it’s Trump?

 

[airplanemechanic]

Yet you moonbats give not one single fuck about all the raptors killed by your asinine windmills.

For just once...stop with your typical knee jerk reaction and read the article and links.

3 Articles from the new york slime? why bother?

Perhaps you should read them first and then write something insightful that we can discuss.

And perhaps your ass could get this thread out of current events because the news is 2 years old.

 

[JLW]

The Trump administration will move as early as Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations.

The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties.

That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths.

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds


The bird population has decreased by 3,000,000,000 over the past fifty years.


Birds Are Vanishing From North America
***************************************************************************

Birds are disappearing. When I was a kid they seemed to be everywhere. Even in the past twenty years at my home, the hummingbirds and cardinals that flew around the house are all gone.

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is over a hundred years old. This latest plan is just more on Trump's war on the environment.

"In recent weeks, the administration has scrapped a clean water regulation aimed at protecting streams and wetlands, and blocked an effort to require Americans to use energy-efficient light bulbs. Within the next month the administration plans to weaken vehicle emissions standards and a rule restricting mercury, a toxic chemical emitted from coal-burning power plants. Completing the rule curtailing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act before the November presidential election will be difficult, but the agency has indicated it will push aggressively to do so."

.....

"The Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal “by any means or in any manner” to hunt, take, capture or kill birds, nests or eggs from listed species without a permit. Beginning in the 1970s, federal officials used the act to prosecute and fine companies up to $15,000 per bird for accidental deaths on power lines, in oil pits, in wind turbines and by other industrial hazards.

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 people and spewed more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and BP agreed to pay $100 million for criminal violations under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act."

Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds

Now as I wrote the bird population has been in decline for the past 50 years. You obviously can't blame the Trump administration for that. However, protection of wildlife should not always be secondary to industry and development. It is a shame that so many think that oil companies and other companies that are responsible for despoiling our environment should now get a free pass.


The world is a far different place than the one I grew up in and not for the better.

Did you bitch this loudly when Obama gave the wind turbines permission to kill the bald eagles for a period of ten years? Or, are you bitching because it’s Trump?

Please cite to which your refer.