Update 1/15: The House Natural Resources Committee today approved the Migratory Bird Protection Act 20-14, sending it to the full House. Legislation introduced today in the U.S. House aims to preserve the legal muscle behind the nation's bedrock bird-protection law even as the Trump administration continues working to weaken it. At the same time, supporters say the bill will give businesses a guarantee that they'll avoid legal trouble if they adopt required measures to prevent bird deaths. Two years ago, the Interior Department announced a new legal opinion on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, or MBTA, a century-old law that makes it illegal to pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect migratory birds or their eggs or nests—or attempt to do so—without a permit. Under the new Trump administration interpretation, Interior said the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) would end a decades-long policy of enforcing “incidental take,” the inadvertent but often...