WASHINGTON, DC—Only days after his peremptory revocation of an Obama-era regulation barring use of the controversial neurotoxic pesticide Chlorpyrifos, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt yesterday rescinded the ban against another dangerous insecticide, Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (more commonly known by its abbreviation DDT). DDT use had been discontinued in US agriculture since 1972.

DDT and its metabolites (DDD and DDE) were flagged as the causative factors in thinning the eggshells among various populations of North American predatory birds, catastrophically compromising their viability, and resulting in the near-extinction of several species.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau moved promptly to mitigate the EPA’s regulatory rollback by drafting an executive order which would permit unmolested cross-border migrations by bald eagles, brown pelicans, ospreys, and peregrine falcons. Declaring Canada’s provinces and territories “open sanctuaries for avian asylum-seekers,” Trudeau also retracted an earlier statement that “the Trump Administration is for the birds.”