Thursday, February 27, 2020

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act: Flight of Fancy or Enduring Change?

Originally published by Energy Legal Blog ®.

The Trump Administration has issued a proposed rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 5915 (February 3, 2020), that would codify its interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), 16 U.S.C. 703 et seq., as applying only to the direct take of birds subject to the Act.  For decades, the federal government interpreted the MBTA as criminalizing both the direct (intentional) and incidental (unintentional and incident to an otherwise lawful activity) take of birds, their nests, and eggs covered by the Act.

Environmental Strategies
Ann Navaro
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