Editorial: Le Monde

• There is increasing hostility towards state agencies dedicated to the protection of the environment or health.
• False information aimed at discrediting these agencies is multiplying on social networks.
• Proposed reforms threaten the independence of these agencies from economic powers.
• There are politicians who amplify the exaggerations of agricultural unions to discredit the regulations these agencies are meant to enforce.
• The push towards deregulation, in the style of the United States and Argentina, jeopardizes environmental protections.

Conclusion: Playing with laws to weaken environmental protection is a dangerous game that undermines the foundations of our democracy and threatens our institutions.

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