This story was produced by Repórter Brasil and co-published with Grist. Diamond Green Diesel, or DGD, a U.S. leader in renewable diesel production, imports beef tallow from a supplier fed by Brazilian slaughterhouses fined for illegal deforestation. Here's HowOne month after the arrest, Repórter Brasil revealed that Frialto had bought cattle from the rancher and his relatives. A 2021 Repórter Brasil report showed that this facility had purchased cattle from a rancher fined for illegally clearing 198 acres of Amazon rainforest. Last year, the U.S. was the destination for 90 percent of all Brazilian tallow exports.