After the 2015 collapse, the state of Minas Gerais weakened its environmental licensing laws — a move Guetta said directly contributed to the Brumadinho dam disaster in 2019, which killed 270 people.
A failure of the Tolt Dam is unlikely, but not impossible. In the case of that failure, Chen said, those monitoring the dam ...
The ruling potentially exposes the mining company to billions of dollars in compensation claims.