Diaper Don moves ahead on gutting bird protection

[Tanuki]

https://apnews.com/article/politics-wildlife-birds-56b812df9c278f5e2b9be9541378892b

"...gutting a longstanding federal protection for the nation’s birds, over objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds will likely perish as a result.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its take on the proposed rollback in the Federal Register. It’s a final step that means the change — greatly limiting federal authority to prosecute industries for practices that kill migratory birds — could be made official within 30 days.

The wildlife service acknowledged in its findings that the rollback would have a “negative” effect on the many bird species covered by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which range from hawks and eagles to seabirds, storks, songbirds and sparrows.

The move scales back federal prosecution authority for the deadly threats migratory birds face from industry — from electrocution on power lines, to wind turbines that knock them from the air and oil field waste pits where landing birds perish in toxic water.

Industry operations kill an estimated 450 million to 1.1 billion birds annually, out of roughly 7 billion birds in North America, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and recent studies.
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Two days after news organizations announced President Donald Trump’s defeat by Democrat Joe Biden, federal officials advanced the bird treaty changes to the White House, one of the final steps before adoption.

Trump was “in a frenzy to finalize his bird-killer policy,” David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society, said in a statement Friday. ”Reinstating this 100-year-old bedrock law must be a top conservation priority for the Biden-Harris Administration” and Congress.
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It’s part of a flurry of last-minute changes under the outgoing administration benefiting industry. Others would expand Arctic drilling, favor development over habitat protections for imperiled species and potentially hamstring future regulation of environmental and public health threats, among other rollbacks."

[Walleye]

1. He was so worried about the windmills killing the birds

[lame54]

2. But the windmills

[Submariner]

3. He is passing these regulation changes now only because he is a LOSER

If he had managed to get re-elected, he would have passed these changes anyway, to huge fanfare soon after his inauguration.

To him and his backers, opening ANWR to exploration is the ultimate finger in the eye to the hated Liberal eco-friendly establishment.

[Blue Owl]

4. Go fuck yourself Donny you fat piece of shit

[leftieNanner]

5. Can Joe reinstate

After January 20th?

[BannonsLiver]

6. Yes. Easily undone.

This will no doubt end up on a long list of things.

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. Yes

Fat Donnie is doing this just to be a dick.