A Sheet debuts the series of reports “”, which shows how the actions of public authorities can cause environmental degradation, mainly through parliamentary amendments.
The journalistic project has the support of the Rainforest Investigations Network (Tropical Forest Investigations Network, in Portuguese), the Pulitzer Center, and will continue over the next few months.
The growth of parliamentary amendments in recent years, with a forecast of R$50 billion in 2025, has become the target of clashes between the Powers at the same time that the environmental discussion gains visibility in Brazil with the proximity of the , to be held next month.
In the first reports this Saturday (11), the series presents data from the federal budget that reveals the allocation of less than 1% of the total parliamentary amendments in the last decade to the environmental portfolio. Meanwhile, deputies and senators worked to allocate more than 1,600 heavy machines to the states of .
The reporters from Politics and TV Folha were sent to the interior of the state of Acre, in the Amazon region. They also show how a federal deputy uses his amendments to regularize the construction of an illegal open road and invasion of indigenous land during the period when he himself was mayor of the municipality of Porto Walter.
