
Green energy company in the hot seat after bald eagles knocked out of the skies
Fox News
The Trump administration is fining a green energy company for killing two bald eagles without authorization at projects in Nebraska and Illinois, triggering civil penalties.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
The first bald eagle was discovered dead in March 2024 near a turbine at Ørsted’s Plum Creek facility in Wayne County, Nebraska. The eagle’s remains were taken to the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory for a necropsy, at which it was determined the fatality was caused by a collision with a wind turbine.
A year later, another bald eagle was found dead on April 18, just 200 yards from a turbine in Lincoln Land, Illinois. The necropsy results similarly showed that the eagle’s death was consistent with a wind turbine collision.













