Rep. DeFazio: Lawmakers Challenge Corporations and Financial Firms to Use Business Leverage and Honor Promise to Help Protect Amazon Rain Forest
September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, issued the following news release:
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) today led 16 Members of Congress in letters to nearly two dozen multinational corporations and financial firms with business in Brazil, urging them to use their leverage to protect the Amazon Rainforest. In the letters, the lawmakers reminded the companies of their commitment to combatting deforestation under the New York Declaration on Forests and ask them to pre . . .
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) today led 16 Members of Congress in letters to nearly two dozen multinational corporations and financial firms with business in Brazil, urging them to use their leverage to protect the Amazon Rainforest. In the letters, the lawmakers reminded the companies of their commitment to combatting deforestation under the New York Declaration on Forests and ask them to pre . . .