RIO de JANEIRO — Marina Silva, the environmental minister who resigned this week, blamed "stagnation" in the government for her decision at a news conference on Thursday and acknowledged that governors in frontline Amazon states were pressing the president to rescind measures intended to check deforestation.
Among the proposals, Trump said he would pull the United States out of the U.N. global climate accord, approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and rescind measures by President Barack Obama to cut U.S. emissions and protect waterways from industrial pollution.
But Hezbollah's military campaign this month was a major blow to United States policy in Lebanon and forced Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government to rescind two measures singling out the group.
And in recent days, organizations including the Museum of Modern Art, Film Forum and Melville House have sent letters to the new prime minister and other government authorities, urging them rescind the measure.
But, even with executive orders, rescinding such measures will be hard, requiring a Byzantine process of public hearings and eventual court challenges.
In a draft report leaked last week, the OECD sharply criticised Germany for failing to deregulate its labour market.Mr Schröder's government has rescinded some measures passed by the previous government of Helmut Kohl, such as the reduction in statutory sick pay and the easing of restrictions on firing by small firms.
The body art community protested that the law's language was overly broad, and Cuomo rescinded the measure.
For at least two years, ever since Florida passed, and subsequently rescinded, a measure to tax advertising distributed in the state, the ad industry has been fearful of further state or Federal efforts to tax advertising expenditures or restrict their tax deductibility.
Several prominent opposition leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, have said they will not engage in dialogue until the president rescinds the measure, known as the constitutional declaration.
Several prominent opposition leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed elBaradei, have said they will not engage in dialogue with the president until he rescinds the measure, known as the constitutional declaration.
The ban, derided as a "global gag rule" by its critics, has been the subject of a political tug-of-war ever since its inception, with every Democratic president rescinding the measure, and every Republican bringing it back.
