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Bye Bye Birdie rollback: Judge invalidates Trump's changes to law protecting birds.

Hooray!

"A U.S. judge in New York has invalidated rule changes put in place by the Trump administration that scaled back a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species, despite warnings that billions of birds could die as a result.

"The Trump administration’s policy was nothing more than a cruel, bird-killing gift to polluters and we’re elated it has been vacated,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which was one of the plaintiffs."

Industry sources kill an estimated 450 million to 1.1 billion birds annually, out of an overall 7.2 billion birds in North America, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and recent studies."

"The 1918 migratory bird law came after many U.S. bird populations had been decimated by hunting and poaching — much of it for feathers for women’s hats.

"It was one of the country’s first major federal environmental laws, enacted just after the conservation movement embodied by President Teddy Roosevelt had emerged as a new force in American politics."

[nbcnews.com]

LiterateHiker 9 Aug 13
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Thank you, as usual… Beautiful ~

Varn Level 8 Aug 13, 2020
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One down. Now if they can stop the Trump administration from killing off all the wolves ( my babies ) it would be nice

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It's that someone is standing up to Trump about nature and the environment.

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What's headed for extinction is the billionaire class and people like Donald Trump.......

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Yay for that judge!

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Hooray

bobwjr Level 10 Aug 13, 2020
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So very Happy he did in validated it and hope the next president reverse the majority of his decsions and especially all of them relating to conservation

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