Thursday, 18 April 2019

Killing migratory birds has been a crime for decades. Not anymore.

Killing migratory birds has been a crime for decades. Not anymore.

Under Republican and Democratic presidents from Nixon through Obama, killing migratory birds, even inadvertently, was a crime, with fines for violations ranging from $250 to $100 million. The power to prosecute created a deterrent that protected birds and enabled government to hold companies to account for environmental disasters.

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