• Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law

    President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communitiesBrazilian lawmakers have passed a bill that drastically weakens the country’s environmental safeguards and is seen by many activists as the most significant setback for the country’s environmental legislation in the past 40 years.The new law – widely referred to as the “devastation bill” and already approved by the senate in

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