This palm oil company just bulldozed a rainforest

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By Nathanael JohnsonMay 21, 2015, 6:36 pm91 pts
In the last two years, a series of companies have made bold commitments to halt deforestation in their supply chains (see this story for the context). But producing products like palm oil without clearing ecologically important rainforest isn’t easy: It’s much easier to get rich quick by exploiting natural…

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