Chile’s new right-wing President José Antonio Kast wasted no time pushing back against the environmental agenda of his left-leaning predecessor, Gabriel Boric. Just one day after his March 11 inauguration, Kast reversed 43 decrees issued by Boric in areas including pollution control, climate-change mitigation, biodiversity preservation, and protected-area expansion. The decrees were reversed while undergoing legal review by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, an independent government body that certifies the legality of state actions before implementation. The rollback comes as part of an effort by Kast to review all actions taken by the previous administration, the Environment Ministry announced on March 17. The ministry asserted many of the measures were advanced by the Boric administration without undergoing proper review. It said 21 of the decrees had been submitted to the comptroller’s office in March and 13 of them on March 10, Boric’s... [Log in to read more]