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FCC ORDERED TO CONSIDER MIGRATORY BIRD PATHS
Wednesday, February 20 2008
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Not only will the FCC have to give its attention to scenes showing the naked backsides of women on television, but it must now also consider the flight paths of migratory birds when issuing transmitter permits. A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday that the commission must study whether communications towers pose a danger to the birds. In a lawsuit environmental groups had cited studies by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that concluded that millions of birds die each year because the lights atop the towers disorient them. In bad weather, the USFWS said, they often circle the towers continuously, sometimes crashing into them or the wires supporting them, or simply collapse from exhaustion.
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