Friday, May 25, 2012

Brazil president vetoes parts of law opening up Amazon

Agence France-Presse: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has decided to veto parts of a new forestry law that environmentalists say would lead to a wave of deforestation in the Amazon, a senior official said Friday. "The president of the Republic decided in favor of carrying out diverse vetoes and modifications to the draft law that deals with the forestry code," government lawyer Luis Inacio Adams, said at a news conference. The overhaul of the 1965 forestry law approved by Congress a month ago had been seen as...

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