Friday, April 27, 2012

Brazil Forest Code Passes In Defeat For Dilma Rousseff

Reuters: Brazil's Congress passed a bill easing rules mandating the amount of forest that farmers must preserve, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for President Dilma Rousseff. Though the bill will require millions of hectares of already cleared land to be replanted, environmentalists expect it will make it too easy for farmers, responsible for much of the deforestation of the Amazon and other swaths of environmentally sensitive land in...

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