According to The Hill, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act has, for more than 100 years, offered protections to more than 1,000 different types of birds. Those companies who violate the treaty face penalties whose projects or infrastructure harm them.
However, in 2017, the Interior Department's Solicitor Daniel Jorjani, advised the Trump administration to punish the oil and gas industry, construction companies, and others only if their work intentionally kills birds. This change would effectively end the entire idea of the law that asks for the migratory patterns of birds to be considered when developing a project.
"The opinion freezes the MBTA in time as a hunting-regulation statute, preventing it from addressing modern threats to migrating bird populations," Judge Caproni wrote in a decision striking down the suggestion, calling it "an unpersuasive interpretation of the MBTA's unambiguous prohibition on killing protected birds," according to The Hill.
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