Oil Lobby Cheers Trump Policy That Lets Oil Companies Kill Birds
With just two weeks left in office, the lame duck Trump administration published a rule to allow industries to kill migrating birds so long as they don’t intentionally kill them.
With just two weeks left in office, the lame duck Trump administration published a rule to allow industries to kill migrating birds so long as they don’t intentionally kill them.
U.S. News has investigated just how many birds are killed by different energy sources each year, and the figures do not look good for coal utilities. Over the years that renewable energy has developed into a mainstay of the Western energy grid there have been a number of attempts to … [continued]
Stories of gruesome bird deaths at the Ivanpah concentrating solar plant in California don’t have much evidence to back them up.
This article was jointly written by one of CleanTechnica’s readers and Zachary Shahan. It’s a shame when a beautiful (or even an ugly) animal dies. It’s a shame that wind turbines do indeed kill birds. However, every source of electricity we have kills some number of birds. And while solar … [continued]