Interior reverses Obama-era penalties on industry for bird kills

The wind, oil and gas industries will no longer face penalties for causing incidental migratory bird deaths, per a legal argument published Friday by the Interior Department.

The brief, which calls repercussions for bird deaths a “sword of Damocles,” replaces a conflicting argument laid down by the Obama Administration that threatened fines on industry for “incidental takes,” of more than 1,000 species of migrating birds.

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