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Lead Ammunition Poisons Wildlife But Too Expensive To Change: Hunters [1]

"On the day before President Trump's inauguration, the outgoing Obama administration passed a last-minute directive, banning the use of lead ammunition and fishing sinkers on federal land.

Recently, the deteriorating health of a bald eagle showed the effects of lead poisoning. Obama's regulation is intended to protect wildlife from exactly that.

But hunters are hoping Trump will soon overturn it."

Eleanor Klibanoff reports for NPR's Morning Edition February 20, 2017. [2]

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Source: NPR [2], 02/20/2017
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