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The Biden administration is delaying a rule finalized in former President Donald Trump’s last days in office that would have drastically weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law protecting wild birds
BILLINGS, Mont. The Biden administration said Thursday it was delaying a rule finalized in former President Donald Trump’s last days in office that would have drastically weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law protecting most wild birds.
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The rule, previously set to take effect Feb. 8, was approved in the final days of the Trump administration and would drastically reduce protections for wild birds.
In this March 29, 2020, file photo, a bird flies among wind turbines near King City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
(CN) The Biden administration appears set to roll back another of President Donald Trump’s environmental policies, announcing Thursday it will delay a federal rule that severely hampers the government’s authority to enforce protections for migratory birds.
In the last days of the Trump administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) finalized a rule limiting the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), one of the oldest wildlife conservation laws that protects migrating birds, their nests and their eggs from illegal capture and trading.