SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's new environment minister, Carlos Minc, called all sugar cane mills in the northeastern state of Pernambuco an environmental "disaster of disasters" and fined them 120 million reais ($75 million). In a crackdown called Old Green Mill conducted jointly with the environmental protection agency Ibama, Minc said on Tuesday on the official government news service Agencia Brasil that all 24 mills in the state had committed a series of crimes. Since he took over as minister after conservationist icon Marina Silva stepped down several weeks ago, Minc has targeted Brazil's powerful farmers, ranchers and miners, who are riding a global commodity boom, and blamed them for fueling deforestation. The ministry has already seized thousands of cattle and hundreds of tonnes of soybeans and corn in the Amazon...
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