Minister states that all environmental bodies will be unable to act with the vetoes being overturned
The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, said that the federal government is considering judicializing the decision to overturn 56 of President Luiz Inácio da Silva’s 63 vetoes to the General Law, the so-called “PL of Devastation” (Law No. 15,190/2025). The statement was made this Friday morning (28) during participation in the program Good Morning Ministerfrom CanalGov.
According to the minister, all environmental bodies will be left without the capacity to act with the overturning of the vetoes, and as it cannot be accepted that the population will be completely helpless, it is essential to consider judicialization. “We are strongly considering it. Because it is unconstitutional for you to ignore article 225 of the Federal Constitution, which says that all citizens have the right to a healthy environment.”
For the minister, the recomposition of the articles of the law that reformulated environmental licensing is a true demolition of rules consolidated 50 years ago in the states and almost 40 years at the federal level. “A consolidation that, over these decades, prevented hundreds of thousands of tragedies. All the tragedies that were avoided cannot be counted. We only look at those that, unfortunately, were not avoided”, he highlights.
According to Marina Silva, the demolition of environmental licensing rules will leave Brazilian society unprotected in a context of complete climate imbalance, in which protection is most necessary. “Just to give you an idea, the Self-Declaration License [restabelecida] it is for the entrepreneur to say that he is in compliance with the law in cases like those of Mariana and Brumadinho”, he explains.
The minister also says that, in this case, the absence of the State creating rules and standards could lead to a lack of control. “When you have the National Environmental Council establishing general rules and, from there, the states and municipalities guide themselves, you have a coherent system”, he adds.
According to Marina Silva, the discourse of modernity and development adopted to justify changes in the environmental licensing process is to disguise everything it considers setbacks and regressions. “We cannot imagine that environmental laws are meant to hinder development. There is no development without a balanced climate”, he concludes.
*With information from Agência Brasil
Published by Nícolas Robert
