Answers trickle in on bird death report

Formal responses from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to charges that a 2004 report it commissioned on bird deaths in Altamont Pass is deeply flawed in its scientific approach and resulted in the dissemination of inaccurate and inflated fatality rates are due this month. But even before the CEC's official response to the charges, Commissioner John Geesman says he is both "troubled" and "concerned" about missing data and a "botched effort" by the CEC at reviewing the report's controversial conclusions.