{"id":1630,"date":"2026-08-22T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:39:14","slug":"green-movements-selective-outrage-over-esa-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Green Movement\u2019s Selective Outrage Over ESA Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social\u00a0that his administration had returned the Endangered Species Act (ESA) \u201cto how it was intended to be,\u201d invoking the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s reading of the statute and initiating the crocodile tears of anti-development activists.<\/p>\n

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The administration\u2019s view is that regulators committed to regulatory expansion had turned the 1973 law into an automatic impediment to human activity rather than a targeted protection of threatened species. In 2012,\u00a0Justice Scalia\u00a0called regulators\u2019 broadening of the statute from guarding against injuring animals to protecting habitat \u201ca terrible interpretation\u201d of congressional intent. He rejected the notion that every form of ecosystem modification should automatically count as prohibited \u201charm.\u201d<\/p>\n

To nobody\u2019s surprise, the reaction of activists has been extreme. The administration action \u201cguts protections for threatened wildlife,\u201d declared the Center for Biological Diversity. Earthjustice attorney\u00a0Kristen Boyles\u00a0said, \u201cThis broad attack on endangered wildlife is un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

But where was this outrage when the Biden administration permitted the killing of bald eagles and whales to erect its politically favored wind turbines? Many of the same voices have spent years promoting large \u201cgreen\u201d energy projects that inflicted harm on birds, bats, marine mammals, and sensitive habitats.<\/p>\n

Permission Slips for Slaughter
\n<\/strong>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u00a0issues incidental take permits\u00a0that authorize operators to injure or kill eagles as a cost of turbine operation. A 2024 rule went further, creating streamlined general permits so that qualifying projects could register for coverage rather than endure case-by-case review.<\/p>\n

Biologists have warned that\u00a0eagle mortality at wind facilities is widespread and badly undercounted. California regulators are now\u00a0scrambling to protect golden eagles\u00a0from the very machines the state subsidized into existence.<\/p>\n

The press has largely averted its eyes. Legacy outlets\u00a0grant turbines a free pass on bird kills\u00a0that would trigger front-page fury if a refinery caused them. The carnage extends well beyond eagles. Studies document how\u00a0wildlife pays the bill for so-called clean power across three continents. In my own country, India, transmission lines and turbine arrays are\u00a0pushing the Great Indian Bustard toward oblivion.<\/p>\n

Whales Nobody Mourns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Move offshore and it gets worse. Federal regulators have granted harassment authorizations that permit developers to disturb and even kill whales during seismic surveying and pile driving for offshore wind projects along the Atlantic seaboard.<\/p>\n

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Research\u00a0has raised concerns that this acoustic disturbance may be directly related to whale injuries and deaths. When the administration\u00a0ordered a review of federal leasing and permitting practices\u00a0for offshore wind, the same activists weeping about the ESA revision called the pause an assault on the planet.<\/p>\n

North Atlantic right whales\u2019 numbers have dwindled to the low hundreds. Dead humpbacks washed ashore in New Jersey and New York through the survey years, and the groups that would have filed emergency legal motions over a single oil spill explained why nothing was connected to anything.<\/p>\n

You do not have to oppose offshore wind energy to acknowledge that marine wildlife deserves the same level of concern regardless of which energy source is involved.\u00a0The same biased pattern extends onto land through utility-scale solar as well. Large solar installations require vast tracts of open space.\u00a0Those projects often proceed with enthusiastic backing because they satisfy political agendas.<\/p>\n

Residents across New York are\u00a0resisting 18 planned solar developments that would carpet protected and agricultural land, kill wildlife, and deliver modest electricity in return. These are farmers and hunters who traffic in the habitat themselves. Career environmentalists sided with solar.<\/p>\n

The Tell<\/strong>
\nA movement that meant what it said would have fought hardest where the killing was authorized, measured and ongoing. It would have demanded that every turbine or solar panel face the scrutiny natural gas compressors do. It would have treated a 30-year eagle take permit as the scandal it plainly is.<\/p>\n

Instead, the activists chose sides by fuel. Wildlife deaths caused by hydrocarbons were a moral travesty. Identical deaths caused by subsidized wind and solar became an acceptable trade, a transition cost, a footnote to \u201csaving the world.\u201d That is a political program wearing conservation as a costume.<\/p>\n

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