Trump Administration Reverses Obama-Era Policy on Accidental Bird Deaths
- Interior Department reverses protections for migratory birds
- Accidental bird deaths shouldn’t be prosecuted, Interior says
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The Trump administration, reversing an Obama-era policy, said it won’t prosecute oil drillers, wind-farm developers and others who accidentally kill migratory birds.
The Interior Department said accidental deaths of those birds will no longer be considered a violation of a federal law meant to protect them, whether they are struck by a spinning wind turbine, vaporized by a solar array or sink in a drilling waste pond.