By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil's Congress passed legislation on Thursday loosening environmental licensing, a potential blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he seeks ...

Brazil's Senate has approved legislation to loosen environmental licensing, despite criticism from climate policy groups and figures inside President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government.

Legislators in Brazil are currently deliberating the General Environmental Licensing Law (LGLA), a new bill which dismantles environmental licensing requirements and, if approved, could accelerate ...

The bill’s approval is a victory for supporters who argued Brazil’s current regulations needs to be simplified, but a blow for environmental experts and green activists, who refer to it as the ...

Every cloud And so Brazil’s environmental movement is squeezed. Yet Natalie Unterstell of the Talanoa Institute, a think-tank in Rio de Janeiro, sees a silver lining.

Brazil’s ag ministry will now verify whether companies have complied with administrative regulations, including the correct disposal of the adulterated soymeal, the port said.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A bill to overhaul environmental regulations in Brazil was passed by the country's lower house Thursday, drawing criticism by the environmental minister who floated the ...