Date

2018-12-20

Measure

Indication for Ministry of Environment (more information here)

Impact

Jair Bolsonaro gives up on extinguishing the Ministry of Environment (MMA), but appoints Ricardo Salles as Minister. Salles is a ruralist politician, former legal director of the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB) and former Secretary of the Environment of São Paulo. He was convicted of administrative improbity for defrauding the management plan of the Várzea do Tietê environmental protection area