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FILE - In this March 29, 2020, file photo, a bird flies among wind turbines near King City, Mo. The Trump administration is moving to scale back criminal enforcement of a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species. The former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told AP billions of birds could die if the government doesn't hold companies liable for accidental bird deaths. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Ex-wildlife chief: Trump rule could kill billions of birds

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

From left; Tim Hilmo, Ron Halsey and Greg Frisch of Atlantic Richfield Co., stand where treated water originating in the Berkeley Pit is being discharged into Silver Bow Creek in Butte, MT., Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. The treated water enters the creek through a pipe that's buried behind the rock wall. (Nora Saks/Montana Public Radio)

Water being released from former mine into Montana creek

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FILE - This Dec. 14, 2016 file photo shows Berkeley Pit in Butte. Atlantic Richfield wants to build a second treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metal-laden water that has collected in a former mining pit in Butte that was closed more than 35 years ago, The Montana Standard reported Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Volz, File)

Another plant sought to treat toxic water from former mine

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Montana mine begins removing copper from toxic water

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Weather pushes back project to treat Berkeley Pit water

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In this Nov. 9, 2018, photo, Ian Fairweather, of Montana Resources, operates a drone that is specially designed to haze waterfowl that land on the Berkeley Pit, a former open pit copper mine in Butte, Mont. Montana Resources uses boats, drones, rifles and sometimes fireworks to keep birds off of water in the pit, filled with water that is heavily acidic. (Meagan Thompson/Montana Standard via AP)

Montana Resources has high-tech ways of hazing birds

By TED McDERMOTT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2016 file photo, a Phoenix Wailer bird deterrent sits on the bank of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont. The wailer, which emits different sounds at random times, is one of the devices used to keep birds from landing in the toxic water of the former copper mine. Mining companies hope to prevent another massive die-off of geese in the polluted waters of the Berkeley Pit in Montana. The Montana Standard reported Friday, March 9, 2018, bird experts worry that with the annual northward migration of geese underway, birds might again be tempted to rest in the water in Berkeley Pit in Butte. In November 2016, an estimated 3,000 snow geese died when they landed in the acidic, metal-laden water. (AP Photo/Matt Volz, File)

Montana mining companies work to avoid another geese die-off

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File - In this Dec. 14, 2016, file photo, the Horseshoe Bend Treatment Plant is seen at the far shore of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont. Montana Resources and the Atlantic Richfield Company are planning to begin pumping and treating the toxic waters of a former open pit copper mine in Montana as soon as the end of this year. The Montana Standard reports Montana Resources on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, announced the plan that will send the treated water from the Berkeley Pit in Butte to the Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond. (AP Photo/Matt Volz, File)

Companies form cleanup plan for Montana toxic pit

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EPA still weighing fine for geese deaths at former mine

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Migratory birds shooed away by drone, fireworks, lasers

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In this Dec. 14, 2016 photo, a Phoenix Wailer bird deterrent sits on the bank of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont. The wailer, which emits different sounds at random times, is one of the devices used to keep birds from landing in the toxic water of the former copper mine. The companies responsible for the pit are proposing additional technologies such as radars, lasers and drones to prevent another mass death similar to the several thousand snow geese that died in the pit last November. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)

New measures approved to protect birds from contaminated pit

By MATT VOLZ - Associated Press

In this Dec. 14, 2016 photo, a Phoenix Wailer bird deterrent sits on the bank of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont. The wailer, which emits different sounds at random times, is one of the devices used to keep birds from landing in the toxic water of the former copper mine. The companies responsible for the pit are proposing additional technologies such as radars, lasers and drones to prevent another mass death similar to the several thousand snow geese that died in the pit last November. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)

Cannons, lasers, drones: New hope to save birds at toxic pit

By MATT VOLZ - Associated Press

Agreement reached for mine waste removal in Butte

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Snow geese deaths from mine pit number in the thousands

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