US to resume enforcement of unlawful bird deaths by industry

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden medication is drafting rules to govern the sidesplitting of chaotic birds by manufacture and volition resume enforcement actions against companies liable for deaths that could person been prevented. Wednesday’s determination by the U.S. Interior Department volition revive longstanding transgression enforcement of vertebrate deaths that had ended nether President Donald Trump. It comes arsenic North American vertebrate numbers person plummeted successful caller decades. Federal officials said they would usage a commonsense attack and not prosecute each vertebrate death. But the announcement got pushback from the lipid industry, which has been taxable to immoderate of the astir high-profile prosecutions nether the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.