Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Attempt to weaken Brazil law protecting forests fails

An attempt by Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and lawmakers backed by big agriculture to weaken environmental laws protecting the Amazon forest and other biomes has failed, as Congress will not vote into law a decree that weakened existing legislation.


from Reuters: Environment https://reut.rs/2Ke0ilQ

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