I spent a few days up near the Boundary Waters - America’s most visited wilderness area - meeting with people trying to protect it from a proposed mine, as well as some mining supporters. Trump and some Republicans are aggressively trying to make the mine happen. wapo.st/4pN2VfE

No real surprise here www.reuters.com/business/env...

Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was 'never a promise' www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Soybean farmer lobby Aprosoja-MT says the Brazil Amazon soy moratorium - which forbids buying soybeans grown on recently deforested land - fosters "a purchasing cartel" and has asked antitrust regulator CADE to end it www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

They have a deal! At long last the European Union and South America's Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia Paraguay) strike an agreement on their long awaited free trade deal. EU and South America strike trade deal: www.reuters.com/world/eu-mer...

Soy traders push to weaken ban on buying from deforested Amazon www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold www.reuters.com/business/env...

Signs that the drought in the Amazon is easing www.reuters.com/markets/comm...