Guardian: Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has used veto powers to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the country's benchmark law protecting the Amazon rainforest in a move the government said would prevent increased deforestation. Environmental activists were not satisfied because they had called for a veto of the entire bill, known as the forest code, saying any weakening of the law would put the world's largest rainforest at risk. Government officials said the partial veto went far...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/25/brazil-amazon-rainforest-law
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