SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil’s environmental agency gave final approval on Wednesday for a giant hydroelectric power plant in the Amazon rain forest that has been at the...
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Brazil, after a long battle, approves construction of huge Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon Rainforest
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