A bill to overhaul environmental regulations in Brazil was passed by the country's lower house Thursday, drawing criticism by ...

The approval of a bill that weakens environmental rules for mining, infrastructure and agricultural projects has raised ...

The Brazilian Climate Minister, Marina Silva, said that the Bill “totally ignored that we are in a climate emergency” and ...

STORY: Brazil's Congress voted Thursday to weaken environmental permitting rules despite fierce opposition from ...

A significant bill to revise Brazil's environmental regulations has been passed by the lower house, drawing criticism from ...

Such chauvinist language is nasty, and reflects the state of environmental discourse in Brazil today. Since Ms Silva’s last stint in office, Congress has become both more powerful and more beholden to ...

With environmental laws defanged, deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has surged further this year, rising 25% in the first five months of the year according to preliminary government data ...

Environmental regulations depend on different administrative spheres. We contacted by e-mail the Secretariat of Extractivism and Rural Sustainable Development from the Ministry of the Environment ...

Ricardo Salles, Brazil's environment minister, speaks to journalists in Sao Paulo in August 2019. Activists say Salles is working to appease certain business sectors that form a crucial part of ...

Brazil Issues Fracking Regulations By James Burgess - Apr 25, 2014, 4:16 PM CDT Brazilian regulators have put in place rules to govern the use of hydraulic fracturing.

Brazil is considering measures that would roll back environmental protections and make it difficult to meet its Paris climate accord targets – a signal it is stepping back from its global ...