Why Brazil should abandon its plans for oil and gas in Amazonia (commentary)

Mongabay
Jun 5, 2025, 5:59 pm112 pts
On May 19, the head of IBAMA, Brazil’s federal environmental agency, overrode the technical opinion of the agency’s licensing department and issued a decision allowing proposed oil drilling in the FZA-M-59 drilling block in the mouth of the Amazon River to proceed for approval. Pressure on IBAMA has been…

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