Brazil Has Weakened Dozens of Environmental Laws During the Pandemic

Yale e360
Feb 24, 2021, 6:06 pm212 pts
Since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019, Brazil has approved 57 pieces of legislation that weaken environmental laws, from relaxing forest protections to declassifying the toxicity of dozens of pesticides, according to a new analysis published in the journal Biological Conservation. Almost…

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