Wildlife advocates cheered the Biden administration’s announcement today that it will scrap a Trump-era rule that prevents the federal government from penalizing companies under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) for the unintended but preventable killing of birds. Trump’s rule went into effect today after the Department of the Interior delayed its start date by a month, but it won’t be in force for long. The department said that it will soon issue a new proposed rule to replace the Trump policy, which Biden targeted for reversal on his first day in office. Interior also said it has rescinded a controversial memo that formed the legal underpinning for the rule. That legal memo, issued in 2017 by the department’s former top lawyer, “overturned decades of bipartisan and international consensus and allowed industry to kill birds with impunity,” said Interior spokesman Tyler Cherry today in an emailed statement. As part of its rule rewrite, Cherry added, the...