Fueling U.S. Truck Fleets Is Destroying the Amazon

October 28, 2016/ News Editor / Climate, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism, South America

Published by the Environmental News Service

OAKLAND, California, October 28, 2016 (ENS) – U.S. imports of crude oil from South America’s Amazon rainforest are driving the expansion of oil operations into some of the most pristine regions, devastating unique biodiversity and indigenous peoples, poisoning U.S. refinery communities, and changing the global climate, finds a new report by the nonprofit Amazon Watch.

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