Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections for Migratory Birds

[douglas9]

Washington, D.C. April 14, 2025

The Trump administration late last week reinstated a dangerous opinion under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the president’s first term that allows extractive energy industries to harm or kill migratory birds in the name of seeking energy dominance. The opinion on incidental take exempts industries from being held accountable for the unintentional, but foreseeable, killing of birds during industrial activities.

“Rolling back these kinds of protections for migratory birds such as snowy owls, red-winged blackbirds, and white pelicans will undoubtedly result in the deaths of tens of thousands of birds,” said Daniel Moss, senior government relations representative at Defenders of Wildlife. “This action is particularly egregious as we approach the 15th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion which resulted in catastrophic mortality rates for sea birds. Only thanks to the MBTA, BP was forced to pay $100 million in fines. Weakening this law by giving businesses a free pass to do harm is the exact opposite of what our government should be doing.”

https://defenders.org/newsroom/trump-administration-rolls-back-protections-migratory-birds

[Walleye]

1. But windmills are a menace?

[Lovie777]

2. shithole musk republicans are turning the USA into Mad Max................

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. I hate these MFers more every day...if that is even possible.

[k_buddy762]

4. Birds are a part of the delicate ecosystem

every organism and animal has its place and its purpose. This is a bad decision.

[Conjuay]

5. This administration is the epicenter of bad decisions. N/T

[k_buddy762]

6. That would make a great bumper sticker!

[WestMichRad]

7. They just keep finding more ways...

… to do evil. No justifiable reason for this other than greed.

[calimary]

8. Aw FUCK!!!

Dammit Dammit Dammit!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

9. But the talking A-hole is always so worried about the 'millions of birds killed by wind mills'.

[surfered]

10. Like almost every issue, Trump is all over the map, depending on the moment.

Arguing for more fossil fuels, he said several times that electricity generating windmills kill thousands of birds.

The only thing he’s consistently concerned about is himself. A lying, narcissistic sociopath.

[Texin]

11. When they destroy the very planet they live upon, where do they plan to go?

Seriously, I don't understand it. How do they think they'll live and where will they spend all the billions they appear to ransack when the earth's burned up and the population is decimated?

[Figarosmom]

12. Ha, and he wants to do

Away with wind turbines because they kill birds, he says.

This guy is so full of shit.

He doesn't like turbines because they put them up by his golf course in Scotland.