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The Verge
17-06-2025
- Politics
- The Verge
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The Trump administration is apparently trying to shut down the board that investigates chemical explosions in the US. What could go wrong? [Link: Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions | |
Washington Post
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon
MANAUS, Brazil — Months before hosting the U.N.'s first climate talks held in the Amazon , Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's lofty environmental rhetoric and show widening divisions within his cabinet. The country's federal environmental agency approved plans for offshore drilling near the mouth of the Amazon and rock blasting along another river in the rainforest, while Congress is moving to make it harder to recognize Indigenous land and easier to build infrastructure in the rainforest.
Reuters
19-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Brazil's agency approves Petrobras' fauna rescue plan as part of Amazon mouth request
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (Reuters) - Brazilian environmental agency Ibama said on Monday it approved state-run oil firm Petrobras' ( opens new tab concept of an emergency plan to assist local fauna in case of an oil spill in the Foz do Amazonas basin. Ibama said the approval is one of the steps needed by the company to gain a final green light to drill in the environmentally sensitive region, adding it will now hold tests and simulations to verify Petrobras' plan effectiveness.
