BILL SEEKS TO OPEN AMAZON TO NEW MILLS

摘要

Brazil plans to vote on a bill to reopen large areas of the Amazon to cane mills, rekindling fears that ethanol production could accelerate deforestation and create a major marketing challenge for the country's biofuels industry. Environmentalists are concerned Congress' vote could overturn a ban on cane expansion in the region that went into place in 2009 and increase pressure on land use in areas that amount to nearly a third of the broader Amazon region in Brazil.